Strawberry Cheesecake Pie
- 2 cups flour, unbleached all-purpose
- 13 cup vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup water ice cold
- 1 package cream cheese
- 1 cup sugar granulated
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest grated
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 4 cups strawberries
- 2 packages strawberries frozen
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- Preheat oven at 350F (180C).
- To prepare crust, prepare a 9 inch pie pan with cooking spray and flour.
- Place flour in a bowl and drizzle with oil.
- Use a pastry blender to evenly distribute the oil and produce a mixture the consistency of coarse cornmeal.
- Sprinkle on the water, 1 tablespoon at a time, and continue mixing until you can gather the dough into a ball.
- Roll the dough into a 11 inch circle onto a floured surface.
- Patch any cracks that may form, but otherwise try not to handle the dough more than necessary.
- Transfer the dough to prepared pie pan.
- Trim the dough, leaving a 1 inch overhang.
- Crimp the overhanging dough into a decorative edge.
- Chill the crust 20 minutes.
- To prepare filling, in a mixing bowl, combine cream cheese, 1/2 cup sugar, lemon peel, and juice until creamy.
- Spread mixture into pie shell and top with fresh strawberries.
- In a saucepan, cook frozen strawberries, remaining sugar, and cornstarch until bubbly then cook two minutes more.
- Cool completely; pour over strawberries in pie shell.
- Chill.
flour, vegetable oil, water ice cold, cream cheese, sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice, strawberries, cornstarch
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/strawberry-cheesecake-pie-45136 (may not work)