Frozen Pie Crusts from Trader Joe's
• $3.99 for two pie crusts
• Trader Joe's
I'm a big fan of Trader Joe's frozen pie crusts. I've reviewed them before, but let me recap the reasons here: There's no sugar in the dough, so it's great for savory dishes like quiche as well as sweet ones like pie. They come in flat rounds of dough, instead of molded to an aluminum pie dish — less waste, and easier to fit to my own dish. And finally, they taste buttery and delicious, the way pie crust should.







































































Martha Concrete Lam...

Agree, these are great! I always have a box in my freezer and use them as a top crust for chicken pot pie (which I prefer with regular crust rather than puff pastry).
Apparently they started making them rolled-up rather than folded into quarters (at least those are the two types I've seen...never seen fully flat ones packaged), which should prevent the breakage that you sometimes get at the folds
These are a freezer staple for me as well (and the only reason I ever go to Trader Joe's). You can make them into pie crust cookies without even defrosting them.
I'm a huge fan of their puff pastry. It's all-butter, comes flat not folded and makes a great pie crust in a pinch.
I always have these around because I'm a terrible crust maker (read that as: lazy). I use them most often with chicken pot pie and they always turn out great!
At my trader joes there are two types of frozen pastry dough - the pie dough and the puff pastry dough. The puff pastry dough is made with flour, butter, salt, water. The Pie dough has a long list of ingredients including palm oil and "butter flavor". Are you sure you're talking about pie dough and not puff pastry dough when you extoll the buttery virtues. I just checked this yesterday.