Atkins Pie Crust Recipes

Steps:

• Mix dry ingredients together, then mix in butter until you have a coarse meal.
• Add water and continue mixing until dough comes together.
• Wrap in plastic and freeze for 15 minutes.
• Roll dough in between two sheets of wax paper (to avoid adding extra flour).
• Press into 9 inch pie plate.
• Freeze for another 15 minutes.
• Use in your recipe, or for a prebaked crust, prick the botom with a fork.
• Cover the crust with foil and pile dried beans on top, to keep the foil right on the crust.
• Bake at 400 for 16 minutes.
• Remove the beans, re-cover with the foil (loosely this time) and bake another 5 minutes.

Steps:

• In medium bowl, with an electric mixer on medium speed, beat bake mix, butter, cream cheese, sour cream (and sugar substitute, if using), just to combine. Shape into a disc. Chill 20 minutes. Roll out dough between two pieces of wax paper to form a 12-inch circle. Loosen wax paper, replace, turn over dough; continue to roll until dough is 1/8-inch thick, loosening and replacing wax paper as needed. Pick up paper and invert dough into pie plate. Peel off paper; patch any tears. Crimp edges for an attractive border. Prick bottom with fork. Chill 30 minutes in freezer Heat oven to 425 degrees. Lightly cover pie crust with aluminum foil. Bake 10 minutes. Reduce oven temperatur to 375 degrees and bake 10 to 12 minutes more, until golden brown and lightly puffed. This recipe yields 1 pie crust. Carbohydrates: 3 grams Net Carbs: 1.5 grams Fiber: 1.5 grams Protein: 1.5 grams Fat: 10.5 grams Calories: 140