The most common problems people have when making homemade pie crust are: The dough is too crumbly It breaks when pressing it into the pan The crust shrinks in the pan as it bakes The crust is tough ...

And when you don’t have that, there’s frozen pie crust. There are plenty of bland, dry, and crumbly premade crusts out there (we know because we tasted a few), but we found three that taste ...

A pie is only as good as its crust. No matter how tasty your filling — be it apple, chocolate, pumpkin or coconut cream — a pie will crumble unless it’s built on a sturdy foundation.