This Classic Strawberry Pie is made with simple ingredients and is so easy to make! This recipe includes the easy butter pie crust!
I told y’all there would be a lot of strawberries this season! Not going to lie, that Vanilla Bean Strawberry Jam didn’t last long in my house! I also made a pie, because I am on my mission to learn everything about pies this year. I wrote this recipe for Baked Strawberry Pie originally for Food Fanatic. But what I really want to talk about is you. Yes, Y-O-U and how thankful I am for each and every one of you! Seriously. This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase a product through these links I may earn a few pennies. Thanks for keeping this free blog going!
Homemade Strawberry Pie
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I wish I could send each one of you one of these pies, but alas! So I made you a really easy recipe and some pretty pictures to help walk you through it. Make one for someone you are grateful for. Your momma, your bestie, your roommate… whoever! Go now! Truly being grateful and thankful has changed the way I operate everyday and best of all it has made me 100% a happier and healthier person. If I could give you all anything, well besides pie, it would be the gift of being grateful.
Classic Strawberry Pie
Makes one 9in Pie
Filling:
2 lbs fresh strawberries
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup white sugar
¼ cup cornstarch
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
½ teaspoon salt
Crust:
1 ¼ cup all purpose flour
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup cold water
7 tablespoons cold butter
Directions:
- Sift flour and salt together. Cut butter into cubes and place in freezer for 5 minutes to get cold.
- Using a fork, stir butter cubes into flour mixture until well coated.
- Add water and use hands to work dough into a ball.
- Place dough in the freezer for 15 minutes to get cold again.
- Work dough until smooth on a floured surface. Separate into two equal parts.
- Roll out each dough ball until as thin as a penny.
- Set aside.
- Dice strawberries removing tops.
- Combine strawberries with sugars, lemon juice, salt and cornstarch in a large pot.
- Heat over medium until sugar dissolves.
- Let filling sit and cool for 15 minutes.
- Press one pie crust into a pie pan. Fill with strawberry filling.
- Cover with remaining pie crust. You can use a lattice design or cover and cut a few slits. Pinch edges together.
- Cover with foil and bake for 35 minutes at 400 degrees.
- Remove foil and drop oven temperature to 350 degrees and finish baking for about 15-20 minutes or until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly.
Classic Strawberry Pie
Ingredients
- 2 lbs fresh strawberries
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 cup white sugar
- ¼ cup cornstarch
- 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- ½ tsp salt
Crust
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1 1/4 cup All Purpose Flour
- 1/2 cup cold water
- 7 tbsp unsalted butter cold, cubed
Instructions
- Sift flour and salt together. Cut butter into cubes and place in freezer for 5 minutes to get cold.
- Using a fork, stir butter cubes into flour mixture until well coated. Add water and use hands to work dough into a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill in the fridge for 15 minutes.
- Work dough until smooth on a floured surface. Separate into two equal parts. Roll out each dough ball until as thin as a penny. Set aside.
- Dice strawberries and remove tops.
- Combine strawberries with sugars, lemon juice, salt and cornstarch in a large pot. Heat over medium until sugar dissolves. Let filling sit and cool for 15 minutes.
- Press one pie crust into a pie pan. Fill with strawberry filling.
- Cover with remaining pie crust. You can use a lattice design or cover and cut a few slits. Pinch edges together.
- Cover with foil and bake for 35 minutes at 400 degrees.
- Remove foil and drop oven temperature to 350 degrees and finish baking for about 15-20 minutes or until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly.
Nutrition
Melissa Chell-Sullivan
The measurement for the corn starch is missing, is it 1/4 tablespoon?
Natalie Paramore
1/4 cup — hope that helps!
Tami Zunk
Ive cooked the strawberries and sugars, lemon juice and cornstarch…its cooking but looks very thin. Is this going to set up while cooking?
Natalie Paramore
Hi Tami,
Yes, it should set while cooling! Hope this helps!
Kpence
Can I use frozen berries
Natalie Paramore
Yes, you can use frozen berries.
Elaine Hedgecock
I had trouble with this pie crust recipe. Itcwas very sticky. Think I’ll go back to Mammaw’s recipe next time.
Stephanie
The photos for this looked good, so I thought I’d give it a shot. Filling is too thin even though I followed the instructions to a T. Pie crust is extremely sticky, it’s more like a pizza dough. Very hard to roll out and rips apart easily. Probably one of the worst pie recipes I’ve made to date. I had high hopes, but ended up disappointed.
Vicki Kvamme
Its not turning out because there is a mistake on the recipe. It should read 1/4 cup cornstarch not 1/4 teaspoon.
Natalie Paramore
It says 1/4 cup in the recipe and text so not sure where the confusion is coming from. Let me know if I can help!