American
Classic Pumpkin Pie
A single butter crust filled with pumpkin puree, eggs, evaporated milk, and warm spice. The center should read 175°F and still wobble a little.
- Prep
- 25 min
- Cook
- 1 hr
- Total
- 1 hr 25 min
- Servings
- 8
- Difficulty
- Medium
Why you’ll love it
- Use pumpkin puree, not pumpkin pie filling. The filling is already spiced and sweetened.
- A hot start sets the crust. A lower finish sets the custard.
- 175°F in the center is the point to pull it. The middle still looks soft.
- It slices cleanly only after it cools.
Ingredients
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Instructions
- 1
Stir the flour and 1/2 tsp salt. Cut in the cold butter until pea-sized bits remain. Add ice water, 1 tbsp at a time, just until the dough holds. Flatten into a disk, wrap, and chill 30 minutes.
- 2
Heat the oven to 425°F. Roll the dough and fit it into a 9-inch pie plate. Crimp the edge.
- 3
Whisk the pumpkin, sugar, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, the remaining 1/2 tsp salt, eggs, and evaporated milk until smooth.
- 4
Pour the filling into the crust. Bake at 425°F for 15 minutes. Lower the heat to 350°F and bake 40 to 50 minutes more, until the edge is set and the center reads 175°F. A slight wobble is right.
- 5
Cool completely before slicing. The center finishes setting as it cools.
Pro tips
- If the crust edge gets dark, tent it with foil.
- Do not use a can labeled pumpkin pie mix. It will be too sweet and too thick.
- A knife in the center should come out mostly clean, not wet.
Easy substitutions
- evaporated milk
- half and half
- cloves
- a pinch of nutmeg
Storage and reheating
Storage
Refrigerate, covered, up to 3 days. Custard pies should not sit out longer than 2 hours.
Reheating
Serve cool or at room temperature. A short warm-up dries the filling.
Nutrition
Estimates per serving, using standard ingredient averages and rounded to the nearest gram. This is not a lab analysis, and it shifts if you change brands or add sides.
- Calories
- 320
- Protein
- 6 g
- Carbs
- 42 g
- Fat
- 14 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
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