Best Pumpkin Pie For Two Recipes

SMALL PUMPKIN PIE

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees F (180 C).
• Fill a cup with 3 tablespoons of ice water and set aside.
• Mix together the flour and salt.
• Pour the 4 tbsp melted butter into the flour mixture, and blend together with a fork until the mixture is crumbly.
• Add the ice water one tablespoon at a time.
• Use a fork and then your hands to form the mixture into a ball. When the mixture forms together but is still a bit crumbly, it's ready to roll out.
• Sprinkle some flour on a clean surface and roll out the dough, constantly flouring your rolling pin.
• Roll the dough out until it's at least 2-3 inches more in diameter than your pie plate.
• Carefully place the dough into a 6 inch pie plate smoothing it out inside the pie plate and letting the edges overhang. Click here for a 6 inch pie pan.
• Cut the overhanging edges with scissors, but leave at least an inch or so overhanging the rim of your pie plate.
• Pinch the edges to make a pretty pattern around the top edge.
• In a large mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese with a hand mixer.
• Add the pumpkin and beat until combined.
• Add the sugar and salt, and beat until combined.
• Add the egg mixed with the milk (half-and-half or cream), and 1 tbsp melted butter, and beat until combined.
• Finally, add the vanilla, cinnamon, and pie spice and beat until incorporated.
• Pour the filling into the prepared pie crust.
• Bake for 60 minutes or until the center is almost set. It will be puffed up but will settle as it cools.
• Place the pie on a wire rack and cool to room temperature.
• Cut in half and top each piece with whipped cream.

PERFECT PUMPKIN PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Whisk pumpkin, sweetened condensed milk, eggs, spices and salt in medium bowl until smooth. Pour into crust. Bake 15 minutes.
• Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F and continue baking 35 to 40 minutes or until knife inserted 1 inch from crust comes out clean. Cool. Garnish as desired. Store leftovers covered in refrigerator.

PUMPKIN PIE

Steps:

• Make the dough by hand. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, and salt. Using your fingers, work the butter into the dry ingredients until it resembles yellow corn meal mixed with bean-sized bits of butter. (If the flour/butter mixture gets warm, refrigerate it for 10 minutes before proceeding.) Add the egg and stir the dough together with a fork or by hand in the bowl. If the dough is dry, sprinkle up to a tablespoon more of cold water over the mixture.
• Alternatively, make the dough in a food processor. With the machine fitted with the metal blade, pulse the flour, sugar, and salt until combined. Add the butter and pulse until it resembles yellow corn meal mixed with bean-sized bits of butter, about 10 times. Add the egg and pulse 1 to 2 times; don't let the dough form into a ball in the machine. (If the dough is very dry add up to a tablespoon more of cold water.) Remove the bowl from the machine, remove the blade, and bring the dough together by hand.
• Form the dough into a disk, wrap with plastic wrap, and refrigerate until thoroughly chilled, at least 1 hour.
• On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough with a rolling pin into a 12-inch circle about 1/8-inch thick. Transfer the dough to a 9-inch pie pan and trim the edges, leaving about an extra inch hanging over the edge. Tuck the overhanging dough underneath itself to form a thick edge that is even with the rim. Flute the edge as desired. Freeze the pie shell for 30 minutes.
• Set separate racks in the center and lower third of oven and preheat to 400 degrees F. Put a piece of parchment paper or foil over the pie shell and fill with dried beans or pie weights. Bake on a baking sheet on the center rack until the dough is set, about 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and lift sides of the parchment paper to remove the beans. Continue baking until the pie shell is lightly golden brown, about 10 more minutes. Cool on a rack.
• Lower the oven temperature to 350 degrees F.
• While the pie shell is cooling make the filling. In a large bowl, whisk together the pumpkin, brown sugar, eggs, half-and-half, spices, and salt until smooth. Return the pie shell to the baking sheet and pour in the filling.
• Bake on the lower oven rack until the edges of the filling are set but the center is still slightly loose, about 50 to 60 minutes. (If the edges get very dark, cover them with aluminum foil.) Cool on a rack. Serve room temperature or slightly warm.

HOMEMADE FRESH PUMPKIN PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Prepare pie crust by mixing together the flour and salt. Cut shortening into flour; add cold water 1 tablespoon at a time (you may need only 3 tablespoons, or up to 4 tablespoons). Mix dough and repeat until dough is moist enough to hold together.
• With lightly floured, hands shape dough into a ball. On a lightly floured board roll dough out to about 1/8 inch thickness. With a sharp knife, cut dough 1 1/2 inch larger than the upside-down 8- to 9-inch pie pan. Gently roll the dough around the rolling pin and transfer it right-side up onto the pie pan. Unroll, easing dough into the bottom of the pie pan.
• In a large bowl, beat pumpkin with evaporated milk, eggs, brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and salt with an electric mixer or immersion blender. Mix well. Pour into a prepared crust. Bake 40 minutes or until when a knife is inserted 1 inch from the edge comes out clean.