Crazy Crust Berry Pie

Crazy Crust Berry Pie – this easy berry pie recipe has a crazy crust that creates itself in the oven. It’s a cross between a pie and a cobbler! If you don’t like crust (or think you can’t make it) but want to make pie, THIS is the pie for you.

This pie came about by accident. Want to hear the story? Great! (Um, if you said no, scroll down, ha!)

I have a trademark for my blog name, Crazy for Crust. That means that no one else can use it in the U.S. Part of the deal of the trademark is that I have to be on top of when someone uses it or else I can lose my rights to the name. Anyway, long story short, that means that I routinely google Crazy for Crust to see if anything comes up that’s not stuff about me or this blog.

I was doing this last week when something called “Crazy Crust” kept coming up. Intrigued, I clicked over and found that there is such a thing as a Crazy Crust Pie. It’s a pie that has a batter crust that forms while it’s baking. No rolling, no pressing into the pan: you pour the batter in, add the filling, and as it bakes the filling takes up the center and the crust forms around the edges.

*MIND BLOWN*

Crazy for Crust needed a Crazy Crust Pie…so this is my version.

I tried a few times before I settled on this recipe. The crust is a mixture that’s almost like a pancake batter. It’s made of flour, an egg, sugar, water, butter, and baking powder. It’s as easy as mixing it up and pouring it into the pan. Once it’s baked it’s not too sweet and perfect with a nice sweet pie filling. This pie is almost like an upside down cobbler.

Most of the recipes that came up when I was researching were either apple (from scratch) or used pie filling. I love apple pie, in fact I have two versions, plus a slab pie, on this site, so I’m pretty appled-out at this point. I decided to go with berry, because that’s my dad’s favorite (and I can freeze this pie for Thanksgiving!)

This time of years fresh berries are meh, so frozen berries are where it’s at.

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