This homemade graham cracker crust recipe is easy to make with 4 ingredients. Pre-bake this graham cracker pie crust to use in your favorite no-bake pies, or use it to make cheesecake, key lime pie, etc.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease a 9” round pie dish.
Make graham cracker crumbs.
Gently break full graham cracker sheets into smaller pieces as you put them into the container of a food processor fitted with the “S” blade or the container of a high-powered blender.
Process/blend until a flour-like powder forms. Make sure to check for un-processed pieces of graham cracker. You may need to pause, release some pieces from the blades, and continue blending/processing.
Transfer the graham cracker crumbs to a large bowl.
Make the Graham Cracker crust
Add the sugar and cinnamon to the graham cracker crumbs in the large bowl and stir to combine.
Then, add the melted butter and stir until the mixture is uniform throughout.
Pour the crust mixture into the prepared pie dish, pressing it down into the bottom of the dish and halfway up the sides.
Bake
At this point, check the recipe for which you'll be using this graham cracker crust. Many recipes, like this key lime pie and the best cheesecake, call for pre-baking the crust for different amounts of time.
If using this graham cracker crust for a no-bake pie, you will need to bake it in the preheated oven for 8 minutes.
Then, remove the crust from the oven and let it cool completely before filling it with your favorite no-bake pie filing - like this vegan chocolate pie, French silk pie, etc.
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Ingredient Substitutions
Graham crackers. You can choose your favorite graham cracker variety to make this recipe: honey grahams, cinnamon grahams, even chocolate graham crackers all work well. You can choose gluten-free graham crackers to make this recipe gluten-free. You can also use graham cracker crumbs to make the recipe even easier and skip the step of blending/processing the grahams.
Granulated sugar. organic cane sugar, white sugar, and even coconut sugar all work well in this recipe.
Ground cinnamon. technically this is optional, but I never make a graham cracker crust without cinnamon!