Questions tagged [crumb-crust]
Use for pie crusts made from cookie crumbs or similar. If asking about crumb coatings for fried items, use the "breading" tag.
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Gingersnap Pie Crust - how to sub butter as binder
I made a delicious pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving using Trader Joe's triple-ginger gingersnaps. The ginger flavor really complements the pumpkin. Following a basic recipe, I added a fair amount of ...
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Can I use amaretti cookies in a cheesecake crust?
I'm making a cannoli cheesecake from this recipe (http://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/recipes/a43604/cannoli-cheesecake-recipe/). I will be adding 1-2 tsps of cinnamon to the cheesecake batter ...
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Recreating an accidental crust effect
For a bake sale, I made a pumpkin cheesecake with a ground ginger-snap cookie crust. It's the first time I had ever made the recipe.
As I do whenever I make cheesecake, I cooked it in a 9" ...
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Is there a substitute for chocolate graham crackers?
Where I live, we don't have any kind of Graham crackers. I've used other cookies before instead of the regular Graham crackers without a problem. I now came across a recipe that asks for chocolate ...
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Why did the crust get too hard on my Blueberry Cheesecake?
I recently made a no bake blueberry cheesecake with its crust made of cookie crumbs(Used Digestive Biscuits as cookies), Brown sugar and melted butter. After keeping the cake overnight in the ...
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Can fruit juice be used to hold a cheesecake crust together?
I'm thinking of changing a Mocha-Mint Cheesecake recipe of mine to a more plain Peach Cheesecake.
Among the other things that need to be modified, I was thinking of instead of using butter as an "...
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Graham cracker crust too salty for cheesecake
My first cheesecake was too salty, particularly around the crust, and I want to know what could have caused it.
One possibility is that I mismeasured the salt, although I do not make that mistake ...
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How can I achieve large bubbles in my bread? [duplicate]
No matter what I do, my recipe produces bread that is pretty dense, I get none of those nice huge holes in the crumb. My recipe goes like this:
500g flour (300g wheat, 200g rye)
350ml water
2 tbsp ...
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Reliable Cookie-to-Butter Ratio for Crumb Crusts
I'm trying to find a general and reliable Cookie-to-Butter ratio (or weights) that I can use when I make crumb crusts for no-bake pies.
My old baking textbook, On Baking: A Textbook of Baking & ...
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How much is a cup of graham cracker crumbs in crackers and weight?
I have a recipe that calls for one cup of graham cracker crumbs. How many crackers am I going to need to crush?
I'm having trouble finding an answer partly because different people consider a "...
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How to set cookie crumbs
When a receipe uses cookie crumbs mixed with melted butter for a base, it usually requires it to go into the oven for about 10 minutes. I am wondering why it needs to go into the oven as opposed to ...
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Parchment paper and crumb crusts?
I have fallen in love with America's Test Kitchen's recipe for lemon cheesecake. Animal crackers in a crumb crust...who knew? It's really good. I just made it for the second time as a birthday gift ...
