Oatmeal Pie Crust Recipe (2024)

Tired of the traditional pie crust? This healthy Oatmeal Pie Crust recipe is easy to make and creates the perfect foundation for your favorite vegan pies. Make it gluten-free or regular, either way, it’s a perfect crispy, flavorful crust.

I love a good pie. I mean, who doesn’t? If I met someone who said they didn’t like pie, I would smile and say something nice, but I’d have my doubts about them.

OK. So now that we have that ground rule on the table let’s talk about this tasty oatmeal pie crust. Because even though I love to eat pie, and I love my vegan pie crust, sometimes it’s nice to have a crust that’s a bit different. You can make a vegan graham cracker crust, but that requires having some graham crackers on hand.

I may not always have graham crackers on hand, but I do always have oatmeal. Always. That’s just one more thing I love about this simple oatmeal crust recipe.

Key Ingredients

You can find the full printable recipe, including ingredient quantities, below. But first, here are some explanations of ingredients and steps to help you make this recipe perfect every time.

Here are the ingredients you’ll need for this recipe, including substitution ideas:

• Rolled oats — otherwise known as old-fashioned oats. You can also use instant oats because instant oats are rolled oats cut into a more fine consistency.
• Flour— I recommend all-purpose flour, but for a gluten-free oatmeal pie crust, substitute a good 1:1 gluten-free flour. I have tested this and it works great.
• Ground cinnamon — we’ll use just a pinch of cinnamon to add some flavor!
• Coconut sugar — I love adding coconut sugar because I think it’s a bit healthier and has some great caramel flavor to it. If you don’t have any handy, feel free to substitute granulated sugar.
• Salt — Just a smidge of salt enhances the complexities of flavor.
• Vegan butter— I used Earth Balance and cut the cold butter into little cubes to add to the food processor. This marbleizes the fat throughout the dough, creating a more crispy crust.
• Water — Yep, water. That’s it, nice and simple. I like to add just enough to make the dough workable.

We’ll grind up the oats in a food processor to make oatmeal flour. This creates the foundation for our oat flour pie crust.

Then you can fill it with your favorite pie filling. For these photos, I used the chocolate pie filling from my vegan chocolate pie. It’s so good!

How to Make Oatmeal Pie Crust

You can find the full printable recipe, including ingredient quantities, below. But first, here are some explanations of ingredients and steps to help you make this recipe perfect every time.

1. Place oats, flour, cinnamon, sugar, and salt together in a food processor or blender.
2. Pulse until the oats resemble a course flour consistency.
3. Pulse in cold vegan butter cubes.
4. Add the water, one tablespoon at a time, and pulse until the dough is moist.
5. Press the dough into a pie pan, pressing it up against the sides of the pan.
6. Place the pie pan in the fridge for 10 to 15 minutes, to allow the crust to chill.
7. After the pie has chilled. Preheat the oven to 375°F.
8. Bake the crust until the edges are golden brown.
9. Remove from the oven and cool completey. Then fill with your favorite pie filling.

Pie Filling Ideas

It’s good to have some pie crust alternatives. Of course, the next step is the filling. I love adding my egg-free pecan pie filling with this oat crust. What other vegan pie fillings can you add to this tasty little crust? Here are some of my favorites:

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