Cream cheese pie crust

Make the simplest cream cheese pie crust! This easy recipe requires just 3 ingredients for a crust you can fill with a variety of fillings.

Cream Cheese Pie Crust. Half cream cheese, half butter, all delicious goodness. Stays flaky and tastes so much better than using all shortening or butter!

This Easy Cream Cheese Pie Crust Recipe is made with both cream cheese and butter, giving it a rich flavor and flaky texture! Perfect basic dough recipe for all pies!

This was a big weekend in New York City. It was Halloween, which is always a production (I skipped it). It was the weekend of the New York City Marathon. And most importantly (to me anyway), it was…

This flaky cream cheese Pie Crust is my go-to recipe for pie crust. It bakes beautifully and doesn't become soggy. It can be used for any kind of pie.

Cream Cheese Dough is a super simple recipe. It is tender, flaky and rolls beautifully. This is my go-to hand pie dough because it is tasty yet sturdy.

The combo of cream cheese & butter creates a super forgiving crust that doesn't get easily over-worked and is much easier to roll out....

The main ingredient isn't just for bagels....

A simple and fluffy cream cheese pastry that whips up in no time at all, perfect for tarts, pies or small hors d'oeuvres.

For a novice baker, this is the most forgiving dough to work with. The cream cheese allows this pastry some elasticity but still produces tender and flaky results. From the book "Mad Hungry," by Lucinda Scala Quinn (Artisan Books).