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Vanilla Wafer Crust

Name: Vanilla Wafer Crust
Yield: 1 pie crust
Ingredients: 1 ½ cups Cookies, vanilla wafers, higher fat; ⅓ cup Butter, with salt

Rating: 4.43 stars

42 Ratings
34 Reviews
10 Photos

This is an unbaked crumb crust. Very easy.

By Carol

Recipe Summary

Servings:

Yield:

1 pie crust

Nutrition Info

Ingredients

Original recipe yields 8 servings

The ingredient list now reflects the servings specified

1 ½ cups Cookies, vanilla wafers, higher fat
⅓ cup Butter, with salt

Directions

Step 1

Combine wafer crumbs and butter or margarine together thoroughly. Press into 9 inch pie plate. Chill until set.

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Nutrition Facts

Per Serving:

227.4 calories; 1.5 g protein; 24 g carbohydrates; 20.3 mg cholesterol; 157.7 mg sodium. Full Nutrition

Reviews (34)

Most helpful positive review

Sarah Dipity

07/31/2009

Nice start to a good recipe. I used 40 cookies, 1/4 cup melted butter, and 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar. Combined everything in a food processor and pressed into a pie plate. Baked the crust at 350F for 9 minutes, let it cool stlightly and then filled it with my pie filling and baked the pie (I made Key Lime). Perfect! Read More

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Most helpful critical review

MEEMEEBULUGA

05/15/2007

I used this as the crust for a banana cream pie and ended up with a slightly soggy crust. Perhaps it would have worked better if I had baked the crust a little first. Read More

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(26)

42 Ratings

5 star values: 25
4 star values: 12
3 star values: 3
2 star values: 2
1 star values: 0

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Sarah Dipity

07/30/2009

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(221)

My4NonBlondes

08/23/2005

I used this crust to change the banana pudding IV recipe here on allrecipes to a banana cream pie. I also added about 1/3 cup of powdered sugar and it was so good! We love the banana pudding recipe but agreed that this time the crust was the best part. I've used the recipe again today to make strawberry pie-yum! So versatile! Read More

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schmerna

07/23/2003

I added 1/4 c sugar and used for a cheesecake. Very good. Read More

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MEEMEEBULUGA

05/15/2007

I used this as the crust for a banana cream pie and ended up with a slightly soggy crust. Perhaps it would have worked better if I had baked the crust a little first. Read More

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(26)

LYNZELE

10/22/2004

I put a a bit of sugar cinnamon nutmeg and ground cloves in to compliment a pumpkin cheescake. Very good. Read More

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(17)

MarkA

04/16/2012

A great starter recipe that needs a lot of work. Keeping the story as short as I can.....40 cookies, 1/4 C butter, 1/3 C powdered sugar, a handful of walnuts, splash of vanilla. Pulsed in a processor. Took the advice of an earlier reviewer and baked at 350F for nine minutes. Poured in a Meyers Lemon filling and cooked for another 30 minutes. Maybe the best pie I've eaten and the crust was perfect. IMHO you have to cook this crust, especially with a non-bake pie, or the crust will be mush. I used a Marie Callender size pie tin and had more crust than I needed. Next time I'll use 30 cookies and maybe a tad more nuts....pecans or macadamias should be awesome in this crust. Anyway, thanks for a great idea. Read More

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WOODSTCK

11/22/2006

Really simple and tasty - used for a lemon meringe pie - WOW Read More

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lissalea

06/23/2010

Good change from the normal graham cracker crust. I used my food processor and pulsed the crumbs butter some orange zest and a little cinnamon sugar. I baked at 350 for 10 minutes cooled and filled with a pudding/cool whip mixture. Yum! Read More

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ANASYRIA

05/06/2008

Made this crust with "Joey's Cheesecake" from this site and the crust was wayyyy better than a graham cracker crust. Loved it! Read More

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I added 1/4 c sugar and used for a cheesecake. Very good.

I used this as the crust for a banana cream pie and ended up with a slightly soggy crust. Perhaps it would have worked better if I had baked the crust a little first.