3 basic pie cake Recipes

all-purpose flour or cake flour, salt, vegetable shortening , butter, margarine, or a combination, ice water

basic flaky pie shells, refrigerated, unsweetened butter, softened, light brown sugar, sugar, eggs, at room temperature, vanilla extract, cake flour , sifted, salt, whole milk or 1/4 cup light cream, semi-sweet chocolate chips, coarsely chopped walnuts or 1/2 cup pecans