Cinnamon Graham Cracker Crust

Baked or No Bake this Cinnamon Graham Cracker crust is the perfect start to many delicious desserts when filling with fruits or pudding.

Old-fashioned icebox cakes, layered pudding parfaits, coconut cream pie, chocolate cream pies or banana cream pies, this is the one perfect crust for any of those mentioned.

No matter what you fill this crust with it will a delicious change in flavor with the addition of cinnamon in the crust, but of course you can use plain graham crackers if you're not a fan.

If you're looking for quick, flavorful desserts for a hit with the family, this graham crumb crust will be your new favorite to make something new and exciting when you have a busy schedule.

Make the crust ahead of time fill with your favorite pudding, fresh fruit or even ice cream, it's versatile and ready whenever you need a great and amazing new dessert.

Check out the easy combination alternatives for fruits and filling below.

You may also like to try our recipe for Strawberry No Bake Ice Box Cake dessert, it's another family favorite.

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Pie Fillings and Other Kinds of Crust Tips

For a quick filling, use a variety of instant puddings you prefer or make a homemade vanilla cooked pudding for those who prefer from-scratch recipes.

You can experiment with several flavors of instant pudding out there on the shelves of your local supermarket, from instant butterscotch pudding to a homemade coconut cream pudding filling.

Making crusts out of packaged cookies and filling combinations can be substituted with any brand, flavored puddings, and fresh fruits!

The crust can be chocolate, graham cracker crust, pretzel crust, or just a store-bought crushed cookie you prefer, like the vanilla wafers we use for banana pudding (you'll just layer this with a crumb mixture instead of sheets of graham crackers).

Shopping List for Cinnamon Graham Cracker Crust

• Filling Suggestions: instant vanilla pudding, or use whatever pudding flavor you prefer, or a cooked homemade pudding cooled (regular or sugar-free)
• Topping Suggestions: heavy sweetened whipped cream, whipped cream
• Crust: Cinnamon or plain graham crackers, chocolate cookie crumbs, vanilla cookie wafers, or pretzels can be substituted
• Butter: Salted or unsalted
• Optional Garnishes: drizzle with strawberry ice cream topping, toasted coconut, toasted almonds, whipped cream, chocolate shavings, sprinkles, favorite candy bars crushed

Other Combinations to fill Cinnamon Graham Cracker Crust

1. peach and vanilla pudding
2. cherries chopped or strawberries and chocolate pudding
3. mango and vanilla or coconut pudding
4. banana and vanilla pudding
5. pineapple and vanilla pudding
6. coconut, diced mango, and pineapple blotted dry and crushed  with vanilla pudding
7. blueberries and vanilla pudding
8. chocolate pudding
9. vanilla pudding with peanut butter cups
10. lemon pudding

Pudding and Fruits for Cinnamon Graham Cracker Crust

1. diced mango blotted dry
2. bing cherries chopped, removing pits
3. red raspberries or blackberries
4. finely diced apples
5. diced peaches, pits removed
6. diced pears
7. diced apricots, remove pits
8. blotted dry chunk of pineapple

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Easy Parfaits and No-Bake Ice-Box Cakes Ideas

• fill fancy-shaped martini glasses or champagne glasses to make pretty parfaits
• layer trifle bowls with sleeves of crackers and pudding instead of making crumbs for a quicker dessert
• layer pudding and pudding in a glass baking dish to make icebox pudding cakes

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American, French

Yield: 6

Author: Claudia Lamascolo

Cinnamon Graham Cracker Crust

This is a basic graham cracker crust baked using cinnamon-flavored crackers and is perfect for pudding filling pies!

Prep time: 10 MinCook time: 10 MinTotal time: 20 Min

Ingredients

• 12 cinnamon graham crackers ( about 1 1/2 cups) made into fine crumbs (see
• Note: either use a food processor or add them to a plastic bag and roll them with a rolling pin to make fine crumbs.
• 6 tablespoons of butter or margarine
• Optional: for more spice, add 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon and 1 tablespoon of sugar to this recipe

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees ( for a baked crust ).
2. Lightly oil spray a 9 or 10-inch pie baking dish.
3. Note: this crust can be unbaked or baked.
4. Mix the crumbs with butter in a bowl, this should resemble coarse, lumpy sand.
5. Press down lightly into the pie plate using.
6. Fill with pudding or fresh fruits and refrigerate.
7. Serve with whipped cream on top.
8. Baking Instructions:
9. Press the crumbs into a pie plate that is suitable for baking.
10. Bake for 10 minutes at 350 degrees.

Notes

Other Combinations to fill Cinnamon Graham Cracker Crust

1. peach and vanilla pudding
2. cherries chopped or strawberries and chocolate pudding
3. mango and vanilla or coconut pudding
4. banana and vanilla pudding
5. pineapple and vanilla pudding
6. coconut, diced mango, and pineapple blotted dry and crushed with vanilla pudding
7. blueberries and vanilla pudding
8. chocolate pudding
9. vanilla pudding with peanut butter cups
10. lemon pudding

Pudding and Fruits for Cinnamon Graham Cracker Crust

1. diced mango blotted dry
2. bing cherries chopped, removing pits
3. red raspberries or blackberries
4. finely diced apples
5. diced peaches, pits removed
6. diced pears
7. diced apricots, remove pits
8. blotted dry chunk of pineapple

Easy Parfaits and No-Bake Ice-Box Cakes Ideas

• fill fancy-shaped martini glasses or champagne glasses to make pretty parfaits
• layer trifle bowls with sleeves of crackers and pudding instead of making crumbs for a quicker dessert
• layer pudding and pudding in a glass baking dish to make icebox pudding cakes

Nutrition Facts

Calories

160

Fat (grams)

13 g

Sat. Fat (grams)

3 g

Carbs (grams)

11 g

Fiber (grams)

0 g

Net carbs

11 g

Sugar (grams)

3 g

Protein (grams)

1 g

Sodium (milligrams)

225 mg

Cholesterol (grams)

0 mg

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