5-Ingredient Pie Crust Cookies
5-Ingredient Pie Crust Cookies
If you like the flaky, buttery crust of a pie, you're going to love this easy cookie recipe. These 5-Ingredient Pie Crust Cookies are everything you love about your favorite pie crust, but in the form of portable cookies. The all-butter pie crust recipe can be used to make cut-out cookies or braided into a beautiful design. Although this recipe for pie crust is basically foolproof, you can also use store-bought pie crust instead. Sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar, these cookies are just sweet enough to enjoy any time of day!
Servings
6
Ingredients
- 1¼ cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup butter, chilled
- ¼ cup water
- melted butter, for brushing
- cinnamon and sugar mixture
Directions
- Combine the flour and salt in a food processor. Add the butter in slices until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add the water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until the dough forms a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Roll the dough out onto a floured surface as thin as you can get it. Cut off the round edges so you're left with a square.
- Cut the dough into thin slices (⅛ - ¼ inch). Pinch three slices together at one end, using a dab of water to help seal the ends.
- Braid the three pieces together until you reach the end of the strips. Using your sealed end as a base, wrap the entire braid around that base. Tuck the braid under the cookie and gently press the cookie flat in your hand.
- Repeat until the rest of the dough strips are used up. Arrange the cookies on a greased cookie sheet. Brush each cookie with melted butter, then sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar mixture.
- Bake for 10 minutes or until cookies just start to brown. If you prefer crunchy cookies, cook for a few minutes longer.