Coffee and Bourbon Pie Crust

Homemade pie crust is a thing of beauty. We have taken that fact and dialed it up with two of our favorite beverages: coffee and whiskey. Our Coffee and Bourbon Pie Crust recipe gives any pie you make a gourmet quality, and takes old staples and turns them into refreshing new experiences. 

Author

Kaldi's Coffee

Prep Time

30 minutes

Cook Time

2 hours

Category

Baking and Pies

Ingredients

• 2½ cups all purpose flour
• Pinch of Salt
• ¼ cup finely ground Kaldi’s Coffee of your choice
• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
• ¼ cup of Ice water or chilled alcohol of your choice.

Directions

1. Sift flour and to avoid clumps into a large mixing bowl.
2. Add salt and coffee and incorporate with flour.
3. Chop butter in chunks and use a pastry cutter to incorporate with dry ingredients. Use fingers to pinch butter in with the flour. The mixture will resemble dried oatmeal with brittle chunks of butter and flour no larger than the size of a pea
4. Take chilled liquid and slowly add to the mixture. 
5. Cut in half and add liquid as needed knead the dough into a disk and wrap with plastic wrap, being careful to not overwork the dough.
6. Repeat step 3 with remaining half and place disks of wrapped dough in the fridge for 2 hours.