Autumn Fruit Galette

Autumn is such a lovely season for baking! All my favourite fruit are abundant at this time of year: apples, pears and my absolute coup-de-coeur: damsons (Quetschen).

This galette can be made with all autumn fruit, but obviously I love making it with Quetschen the most! The fruit is arranged on a layer of walnut frangipane, which gives this tart extra moistness and a lovely nutty flavour dimension.

The dough is my absolute go-to dough! It’s foolproof and super easy to handle. I use it in all my tarts these days, and I hope it will  also become a firm favourite of yours!

This recipe was created for Quattropole, in order to promote seasonal produce from the Greater Region’s cities Luxembourg, Metz, Saarbrücken and Trier.

This is a recipe from my book ‘Baking with Anne‘.

Ingredients

For the dough:
250g flour
60g icing sugar
125g cold butter
1 egg
3 tbsp cold water
Zest of an unwaxed lemon
a pinch of salt

500g damsons or 4 apples / pears

For the frangipane:
60g walnuts
60g butter, room temperature
45g sugar
1 egg
2 tbsp flour
¼ tsp cinnamon
a pinch of salt

And also:
1 tbsp milk
1 tbsp of sugar
Whipped cream, for serving

Method

Makes 1 galette of 30cm for 8 people – Preparation: 1 hour + 1 hour resting – Oven: 40 minutes

For the dough, put the flour, icing sugar and a pinch of salt in a bowl. Cut the butter into cubes and add to the flour. Rub between your hands until it resembles breadcrumbs, or mix in a food processor. Add the egg, water and lemon zest and knead or mix into a dough.

Shape the dough into a disc and wrap in cling film. Refrigerate for 1 hour.

While the dough is in the fridge, prepare the frangipane: Finely chop the walnuts in a small food processor and place in a bowl. Add the butter and sugar and mix to a paste, then mix with the egg, flour, cinnamon and salt. Let the frangipane rest in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, halve and core the damsons and cut each half into 3 pieces (or peel, core and slice apples / pears).

After 1 hour, preheat the oven to 170°C fan. Take the dough out of the fridge and place on a floured work surface. Roll out thinly so that the dough is about 35cm wide. Lift onto a baking tray lined with baking paper.
Prick the dough base a few times with a fork, then spread the frangipane over the dough, leaving a 5cm edge. Distribute the fruit on the dough and fold over the edges.

Brush the edges with milk and sprinkle with sugar.

Bake the galette in the preheated oven for 40 minutes, then serve warm or cold with whipped cream.

TIP: If you use apples / pears, brush the fruit with some heated apricot or quince jam as soon as the galette comes out of the oven.

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