The Best Pumpkin Pie by Lisa Smith

Lisa Smith shares a Pumpkin Pie Recipe (With a Homemade Crust)

Things you’ll need for the pie filling:

– 8 oz. cream cheese

– 1/4 cups of canned pumpkin puree

– 3/4 cup sugar

– 2 eggs

– 1/2 cup of heavy cream

– 1/2 stick of melted butter

-1 teaspoon vanilla extract

-1 teaspoon cinnamon

-1 teaspoon pumpkin spice

Things you’ll need for the pie crust:

-1 cup flour

-1/2 teaspoon salt

-1 stick of butter (cut into cubes)

-1/4 cup of cold water

Pie Crust:

1. Okay, let’s start with the pie crust. In a small bowl add one cup of flour, and salt. Mix these. Add one stick of butter that has been cut into cubes. With a fork combine the flour and butter, until you get a crumb texture. If you have a food processor you could do it that way, but honestly it doesn’t tale very long to do by hand.
2. When you have that crumb texture, add the cold water and mix until you have a dough ball. Take that ball into your hands, kneed it a bit, and add flour as needed. You don’t want this dough to be sticky.
3. Roll out the dough into a round shape that fits your pie pan (nine inch pan, so roll it out to about ten or so inches). This doesn’t have to be perfect. Put the dough into your pan, and with your hands position and move the dough until it covers the entire pan.
4. Take a piece of aluminum and place it on the center of your pie, covering everything except the edges. Fill this aluminum with baking beans. Throw your crust in the oven at 350 for ten minutes. Take the beans and the aluminum out, and bake for another five.

Pie Filling:

1. In the same bowl you made the dough (wipe it out if you feel you need to) mix the cream cheese until soft. Once you have that nice and whipped, add the pumpkin puree and continue to mix.
2. Add all of the rest of the ingredients, mixing after each one to make sure it’s well combined.
3. Now your filling is all done.
4. Pour the filling into your warm pie crust and put it back into the oven at 350 for another fifty minutes, or until the pie filling is stiff.
5. Take out your pie, let it cool completely.
6. And Enjoy!!