This Easy Keto Coconut Flour Pie Crust is perfect for either sweet or savory pies! It's quickly made in your food processor and pressed into to your pie dish, no rolling required! It is also perfect for those who have tree nut allergies and can't use almond flour.
Have you struggled to find a healthy, nut free, keto, low carb pie crust you can literally use for anything? Don't you wish there was just one type of pie crust that was fool proof and picky family approved?
SEARCH NO FURTHER!! The Struggle is OVER! I bring you the BEST Keto Low Carb Pie Crust for sweet or savory pies, using coconut flour for a wonderfully flaky texture!
It's taken me plenty of time but it's been worth it experimenting because I FINALLY can share this pie crust I've been using for weeks from everything sweet to savory. My family never gets sick of it. It's perfectly flaky and delicious!
INGREDIENTS FOR KETO NUT FREE PIE CRUST
The Basic ingredients are eggs, extra virgin olive oil, salt coconut flour, and butter.
For Sweet Pies: add vanilla extract and low-carb sweetener
For Savory Pies: add any spices you like, onion powder, garlic powder, etc.
Someone in your family doesn't like coconut? No worries because I have tested this with the worst coconut detector of all, my youngest child. You know the one with the tree nut allergy I'm always making recipes for? Yep. He's eaten this 3 times and still has no idea it's made with coconut flour!
Here is my Coconut Cream Pie!
HOW TO MAKE KETO PIE CRUST
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Whisk the eggs, oil and vanilla extract in a food processor or stand mixer.
- In another bowl whisk the remaining ingredients together until combined.
- Pour the dry into the wet mixture into a food processor.
- Add the cold cubed butter and process and pulse until it looks like crumbles.
- Allow it to start pulling away from the sides of the food processor and form a ball of dough.
- Spray a pie plate with cooking spray and place in pie plate.
- Press with hands to form dough right in the pie plate. Alternately you can also roll out dough between two pieces of parchment paper and flip over into a 9 inch pie plate.
- Using a fork randomly make holes into the bottom of the crust.
- Bake the crust 10 minutes or until golden.
- Cover the crust edges with aluminum foil or silicone crust cover, if using this for a savory or sweet pie that needs to be baked again, otherwise it will burn.
CAN THIS KETO CRUST BE MADE AHEAD?
Yes you can certainly prepare this pie, cover it and refrigerate for up to 3 days prior to baking. You can also freeze the crust for up to one month.
CAN I SWAP COCONUT FLOUR WITH ALMOND?
I know there are many of you who hate coconut flour. It's taken me a long time to learn how to work with coconut flour. I've had a love hate relationship with it forever. I think we are finally beloved friends!
Although my youngest has a tree nut and peanut allergy, he also really hates the taste of coconut.
Disguising it, hiding it, whatever I can do I do, but I must use it as I am so limited on making low carb recipes without it. I do also use sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and sesame, but the coconut flour color is the perfect one for a flaky pie crust.
For this keto pie crust you can not swap coconut flour for almond as they just need to many changes to make it work well.
I have plenty of other pie crusts as well, not using coconut flour as the main ingredient:
- Sunflower seed pie crust
- Grain Free Chocolate Pie Crust
- No Bake Chocolate Pie Crust
- Cream Cheese No Roll Pie Crust
I do love those no bake crusts, but still right now this pie crust is our favorite!
Here is my Lemon Cream Pie!
TIPS FOR THE BEST FLAKY KETO PIE CRUST
Cold Butter- Cold butter is a must for this recipe. This will help create that nice flaky pie crust we want.
Room Temperature Eggs-I always use room temp eggs since I have chicken in my backyard. If they are too cold it makes it more difficult to incorporate as well with the either ingredients.
Glass Pie Dish- I find that glass pie dishes work best for baking the pie crust evenly as opposed to metal.
Silicone Crust Cover- A Silicone crust cover will prevent any burning of your pie crust, especially helpful if you are making a filling like my pumpkin pie and the crust has already been pre-baked.
BEST FILLINGS FOR KETO PIE CRUST
When my Italian mother who is NOT low carb told me the crust and this Lemon Cream Pie above was phenomenal and perfectly flaky, I knew it was a winner!
Recipes I've made with this crust so far:
- Sugar-Free Chocolate Cream Pie
- Keto Coconut Cream Pie
- Savory Cheesy Sausage Quiche
- Keto Chocolate Chess Pie
- Keto Cheesecake
EASY KETO LOW CARB PIE CRUST
Low Carb Coconut Flour Pie Crust
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract eliminate for savory
- ¼ cup Swerve granular sweetener -eliminate for savory
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup coconut flour
- ½ cup butter cold cut into cubes
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Whisk the eggs, oil and vanilla extract in a food processor or stand mixer.
- In another bowl whisk the remaining ingredients together until combined.
- Pour the dry into wet mixture into a food processor.
- Add the cold, cubed butter.
- Process by pulsing until it looks like crumbles.
- Spray a pie plate with cooking spray and place in pie plate.
- Press with hands to form dough right in the pie plate. Alternately you can also roll out dough between two pieces of parchment paper and flip over into a 9 inch pie plate.
- Using a fork randomly make holes into the bottom of the crust.
- Bake the crust 10-15 minutes or until golden.
- Cover the crust edges with aluminum foil if using this for a savory or sweet pie that needs to be baked again, otherwise it will burn.
- Once cooled out of the oven, add your filling.
Notes
- I've also used softened butter instead of cold butter the first time I made this. I found the cold butter and food processor method worked better and provided a less crumbly dough to place in the pie plate.
- The third time I made this I added the oil simply because, even with the butter I felt the coconut flour can be so absorbent and dry that little bit of oil really helps.
- My youngest HATES all things coconut and never noticed it any of the times I've made this crust! I never told him either!
- This pie crust recipe was first published in March of 2016 and updated in 2018 with a video.
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