Pie Crust Wheat/Gluten Free

My hubby has been mentioning that he'd love to have a cherry pie.  I'm partial to crumbles and crisps, but it sounded like a worthy adventure.  So I grabbed a recipe that is gluten free, wheat free and starchy flour free!  Little did I know what a strange trip it was going to be!

This was my first ever pie crust so I can't compare it to making regular pie crust.  All in all, I think it was pretty freakin' easy!  I'm trying to be frugal as much as possible so you know what is coming... I substituted some garbanzo bean flour in place of some almond flour.  Sorry, but I'm not paying $10 for a tiny little bag of that stuff!  I know I could have used almond meal, but since the recipe called for a flour I wanted to go with something finer and closer on my first attempt.

As I sat down to type up the recipe, in the grip of a Benadryl induced haze, I realize that I might not have followed the recipe exactly as it was written.  Whoopsie!

Ok, it looks kinda pitiful and patchworky, but it is my first one ever!  

It is so ugly it is cute, yeah... let's go with that!

Basic Pie Crust

1 cup walnuts
1 cup almond flour, divided (I used 2/3 cup garbanzo bean flour + 1/3 cup almond meal)
2/3 cup ground golden flaxseed (I used golden flaxmeal)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon guar gum
1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter, cut into cubes
1 egg
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 tablespoon water

Directions

In a food processor, pulse the walnuts until chopped.  Add 1/2 cup almond flour, the flaxseeds, baking powder, guar gum, xanthan gum, and salt.  Pulse until well blended.  Add the butter and pulse 10 times.  Add the egg, vinegar, and water, and pulse until just combined.  The dough will be wet.

Dust a work surface and your hands with some almond flour.  Place the dough on the work surface.  Knead the remaining almond flour into the dough.  Form into a disk.  Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.

Sandwich the dough between 2 pieces of parchment paper that has been dusted with almond flour.  Roll out with a diameter of 10".  Peel off top paper and place a 9" pie pan upside down on top of the dough.  Turn dough onto the plate and gently peel off parchment paper.  Trim overhang and crimp edges.  Chill until ready to use.

To prebake, preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Bake for 23 minutes, or until the crust is golden and no longer moist to the touch.

In my Benadryl haze, I really think I added 2/3 cup flour to the food processor and then kneaded in the 1/3 cup later.  I really thought I was following things exactly.  Crazy what medicine can do to your mind!  Why the heck didn't I DIVIDE the flour instead of breaking it up the way I did is totally beyond me!  Perhaps I should have called this post "Trippin' with Pie Crust"????!!!!