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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Recipes / Dessert Recipes / Chocolate Cookie Pie Crust Recipe

Chocolate Cookie Pie Crust Recipe

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

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chocolate cookie pie crustI consider a chocolate cookie pie crust essential for making certain types of confections. In particular, key lime pie and cream pies turn out absolutely delicious using this type of pastry crust.

I used to purchase an organic chocolate cookie crust that was made with palm oil. It was tasty, very convenient to use, and had quality ingredients. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find this brand or a similar one for a number of years.

The first time I couldn’t find the organic chocolate cookie pie crust, I succumbed to using a (gasp!) oreo cookie crust from the supermarket. Check out the ingredients. What in the world was I thinking?

Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin [Synthetic], Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate [Synthetic], Riboflavin [Synthetic], Folic Acid [Synthetic]), [GMO] Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil [GMO transfat], Cocoa (Processed With Alkali), High Fructose Corn Syrup [GMO], Corn Flour [GMO], Whey, Baking Soda, Salt, Soy Lecithin (GMO Emulsifier), Cornstarch [GMO], Chocolate, Vanillin-an Artificial Flavor, Bha, Tbhq and Citric Acid (GMO Preservative).

GMOs, synthetic vitamins, additives, and artificial flavors galore. Possibly the worst ingredient is the partially hydrogenated soybean oil which is both GMO and a transfat!

Even though the ingredients I filled that oreo pie shell with were organic and wholesome, that nasty crust just ruined the whole thing. On top of that, I needed to use my trusted sore throat remedy literally within an hour of eating a slice of that pie. I have no doubt the horrible ingredients in the pie crust were the culprit.

As farmers sometimes like to say, it just doesn’t work to put lipstick on a pig.

Settling for a garbage pie shell is sure to ruin an otherwise wholesome and delicious pie.

After that kitchen fail, I resolved to make my own chocolate cookie pie crust going forward. It is very easy to do and is a similar process to making a homemade graham cracker crust. Not sure why I didn’t do this from the get go.

Below is the recipe I’ve come up with that is quick, easy, tasty and wholesome. It also does not require any pre-baking. Enjoy!

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Chocolate Cookie Crust

This easy chocolate cookie pie crust recipe is ready in 10 minutes and does not require any pre-baking before using the pie filling of your choice. Makes 1 standard size pie crust

Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 1 pie crust

Ingredients

  • 1 package organic chocolate cookies (not soft baked)
  • 1/3 cup grassfed butter
  • 1/3 cup expeller pressed coconut oil

Instructions

  1. If you've purchased organic chocolate sandwich cremes, break apart each cookie and scrape off the filling. Discard the filling. If you purchased plain chocolate cookies (this brand is the best), proceed to the next step.

  2. Place filling-free chocolate cookies in food processor and pulse until only crumbs remain.

  3. Pour chocolate cookie crumbs into a clean glass pie plate. 

  4. Mix melted grassfed butter and expeller pressed coconut oil with the cookie crumbs using a spoon.

  5. Use a large spoon or clean hands to press the chocolate cookie mixture evenly over the base of the pie plate and up the sides to form a uniform crust.

  6. Put in the freezer for an hour or so until firm and then add filling of choice.

Recipe Notes

I don’t recommend aluminum pie plates unless you plan to line them with unbleached parchment paper so the pie crust does not come into contact with the aluminum. This is especially important when you are cutting the pie as scratching the aluminum is what releases it into the food.

Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: the bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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Comments (12)

  1. Ruth Margaret Haberkorn

    May 2, 2019 at 10:16 pm

    Can I just use only butter instead of coconut oil?

    Reply
    • Sarah Pope MGA

      May 3, 2019 at 7:48 am

      Yes, that will work fine.

  2. Laura Pallandre

    Jul 10, 2017 at 1:54 pm

    Sarah, just buy gluten free cookies for people with celiac? Any recommendations? Thanks!

    Reply
  3. sara

    Jan 31, 2017 at 1:58 pm

    Are these cookies with sprouted flour? (Please say yes)

    Reply
    • Sarah

      Jan 31, 2017 at 5:53 pm

      No they are not. But, a small amount of unsprouted flour used in a pie crust occasionally is not a problem in my view 🙂

  4. Remy Bernard

    Jan 1, 2017 at 7:47 pm

    5 stars
    This looks great and I can’t wait to try it. Do I need to use grassfed butter. I have some butter from Whole Foods but I don’t think it’s grass-fed. Thanks!

    Reply
    • Sarah

      Jan 2, 2017 at 9:13 am

      You can absolutely use regular butter. I just suggest grassfed butter as the most nutritious choice 🙂

  5. J. Spring

    Dec 17, 2016 at 1:23 pm

    Hi. I am a big WAPF fan, u know you are too, so why “expelled pressed coconut oil” and no cold pressed coconut oil? Seems odd you would even recommend that, let alone specifically call for it.

    Reply
    • Sarah

      Dec 17, 2016 at 5:52 pm

      Cold pressed coconut oil changes the flavor of the recipe. Some folks don’t enjoy the coconut-y flavor. Expeller pressed has no flavor and is better for cookies for that reason. If you are going to consume therapeutically or for weight loss, virgin coconut oil is the better choice.

  6. Melissa M.

    Dec 5, 2016 at 12:04 pm

    5 stars
    I love your graham cracker crust recipe, so I’m sure this one will be just as awesome!

    Reply
  7. Elizabeth

    Dec 5, 2016 at 8:57 am

    Happy with these cookies for this crust: Jovial Crispy Cocoa Einkorn Organic Cookies. http://amzn.to/2h68Vg7

    Reply
    • Sarah

      Dec 5, 2016 at 9:04 am

      Yes, those cookies are amazing and have fantastic ingredients. Thanks for the suggestion!

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