Easy 3-Ingredient Low-Fat Graham Cracker Crust
Making a low-fat graham cracker crust is SO easy to do, using just 3 ingredients (plus water), you’ll never buy a pre-made one again. You can use regular graham crackers, gluten-free, or even chocolate like I did here. Once made, you can fill it with anything your heart desires.
Ideas: No-bake cheesecake, pumpkin no-bake cheesecake, peanut butter pie, yogurt pie, coconut cream pie… the list goes on. Here’s how easy it is to do.
Ingredients:
- 6 sheets graham crackers (3.5 oz total)*
- 2 tbsp raw sugar
- 3 tbsp cold whipped butter
*Use gluten-free graham crackers to make this gluten-free.
Directions:
Step 1 – Preheat oven to 375°F. Place all the ingredients into a food processor and pulse a few times. Add 1 tbsp water and pulse a few more times until it has a texture of coarse meal.
Step 2 – Press into an 8-inch pie dish making the crust about 1/8-inch thick evenly all around and up the sides.
Step 3 – Refrigerate the crust for 30 minutes before you bake it, this will help prevent crumbling when you want to serve it.
Step 4 – Bake until the edges are golden, about 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and let the crust cool on a wire rack, before filling.
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Do you have a recommendation of butter to use for this recipe?
I used Breakstones
Why use whipped butter if you end up melting it anyway?
Just a preference, it holds together well.
I'm going to try this using KerryGold butter….. I'm not sure what we're going to fill it with yet though! but it looks wonderful !
I want to make this crust for a coconut creme pie!
How can you make whipped butter at home?
You just put unsalted butter into a food processor or stand mixer until it is a whipped and soft consistency, you are just incorporating air into the butter.
Any suggestions if you don't have a food processor?
You could use a blender. If you don't have a good blender you could at least use it to crush the crackers (or crush them by hand in a ziploc with a rolling pin or your fists lol) and then mix in the sugar and butter by hand in a bowl, but just be sure to use melted butter if doing it by hand.
Love your recipes! Could you tell me what kind of graham crackers you use? They look very dark and I'm not sure if it's the photo or if maybe you used chocolate ones. Either way it looks delicious! Thanks!
She says at the beginning of the post that she used chocolate graham crackers for this recipe
I used chocolate this time because I wanted to use it for pumpkin cheesecake, but I also use the regular kind.
Is there an aproximate time for baking the crust? You mentioned until it's golden brown…how can you tell when it's so dark?
Where do I buy Breakstones whipped butter?
I can't help but wonder if failing to add sugar to my graham cracker crusts has been a big mistake all this time…
Can regular sugar be used instead of raw sugar?
Sure any sugar will work.
You can make this lower fat by using melted dark chocolate wafers instead of the butter and sugar to make the crust.
There is fat in wafers
Fun idea, will have to try that sometime.
I love your recipes, but why is there no print button anywhere? Instead I have to print out the whole web page. Much easier if it was in a single sheet recipe. Please fix! TX!
It's right below the directions. The green button.
There is a print friendly button at the bottom of the recipe next to email.
Can anyone clarify please, are Graham Crackers the equivalent to our digestive biscuits in the UK?
Many Thanks
Hi there – American living in the UK here – digestives are about as close as you'll get. We can't get graham crackers here, but I successfully made several pie crust recipes that called for graham crackers using digestives instead, and they've always turned out great. Minor taste difference but still delicious 🙂
Sure, that will work!
To Anonymous 12:18 – where does it say to melt the butter? I don't see that in the recipe.
Thank you Gina and Kells32,
looking forward to giving it a go!
very easy and look delicious, I want to try this 3 ingredients Cracker crust
Can one use brummel brown instead of butter?
That should work, though I haven't tried it myself.
Hi I am in Germany, and we don't have graham crackers. What could I use instead? I would love to try this recipe with the pumpkin filling.
You can use Gingersnap cookies as well. Or just use a pie crust shell, bake, cool and fill. Then cool everything again!
Digestive biscuits would work if you can find them.
Hi if I am going to make pumpkin pie with this crust should I still bake it first or fill it and then bake it with the filling inside?
I can just taste the chocolate grahams with a lemon pie filling. I have to get to the store quickly………
So simple! Your the best!!! ????
This is so easy and delicious! I’ve used both chocolate and honey graham crackers to make this crust. Highly recommend!
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Can I make it with regular graham cracker and add cocoa powder to get the chocolate flavor?
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Can the crust be made the night before? Loving using this recipe at Thanksgiving 🙂
I don’t see why not.
HI Gina,
Love your website, thanks for taking the time to share your love and knowledge of cooking healthier recipes with us. I was reading the comments and saw that you use unsalted butter. I made this crust exactly as you posted before I read the comments. Can you correct it to say unsalted butter so next time I remember? I don’t print recipes. Thanks.
EASY and works great with so many fillings!
I want to make this with a cheesecake that I have to bake for 30 min. Should I still prebake the crust?
I want to use this with a baked cheesecake , can I use this or not?