![]() This will take about 1 minute, depending on your microwave.Īdd the crumbs to the bowl along with 1/4 cup of sugar. Put 5 Tablespoons of butter into a med-large microwave safe mixing bowl. (One stick has 8 Tablespoons, which equals 1/2 cup or 4 ounces or 113 grams.) To crush the crackers into crumbs, put the crackers in a zip-lock bag and, with a heavy can, start crushing. Each packet contains 9 crackers, and when crushed, will equal 1 and 1/4 cups of cracker crumbs. There are usually three packets of crackers each in a box. (An alternative to the butter and sugar would be to use 3 Tablespoons of canola oil and 3 Tablespoons of maple syrup.) It only takes three ingredients – butter, sugar and graham cracker crumbs. Making the crust yourself is not complicated at all. Plus, it just looks better presenting a dessert in a proper pie dish rather than a tin-foil pan! The answer is that the taste and texture of a home-made graham cracker crust is far superior to that of the pre-made variety. You may be asking, “why should I bother making it myself?” You can buy a pre-made graham cracker pie crust, usually in two different sizes 9-inch or a package of minis. If anyone can recommend a plain, sweet cracker that is used in your country for a crumb crust, I would appreciate you adding it to the comments!) I am not sure what the equivalent ingredient would be elsewhere. (For my international readers, graham crackers are readily available in the USA. (For the more adventurous beginner cooks, be sure to check out the bottom of this post for links on making a pie crust made of dough from scratch) This graham cracker crust may well change your mind! It is about 1,000 times easier to make than making and rolling out a pie crust made of dough. Most people learning how to cook are totally terrified at the thought of making a pie crust. Learning how to make a graham cracker pie crust will open the door to making all sorts of tempting dessert pies including the Chocolate Fudge Pie pictured above.
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