This easy peach galette recipe is for all of those sweet peach lovers out there. For now, I used canned peaches, but once the farmer’s market is in full swing, I will be using those sweet summer peaches. Justify indulging in this dessert as the recipe does call for fruit. This post is all about an easy peach galette recipe.
Some may wonder what a galette even is. Is it a pie, is it a cake, or is it both? According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a galette can be defined as a flat round cake of pastry often topped with fruit.
I define it as a way to include a daily serving or two of fruit into a sugary and delicious treat. Be it that you serve this yummy galette for a dinner dessert, a brunch treat, or a breakfast sweet, you will be more than satisfied.
This post is all about an easy peach galette recipe.
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Easy Peach Galette Recipe
Step 1: Take Pie Crust Out of the Fridge
Be sure to take the ready-to-bake pie crust out of the fridge prior to starting your recipe. This way it softens so that you can easily shape your galette.
Step 2: Preheat Oven for the Easy Peach Galette Recipe
Before you add the ingredients, preheat the oven to 350°.
Step 3: Drain Peaches
In order to eliminate all of that excess juice, just drain your peaches prior to creating the fruit mixture. My daughter really enjoys working with me in the kitchen, and this little strainer is perfect for her to hold.
Step 4: Add Brown Sugar to Easy Peach Galette Recipe
After adding in the peaches, top them with 1/4 cup brown sugar. I used dark brown sugar, but light will also work. Either way, you will still create a delicious fruit mixture for your galette.
Step 5: Add Cinnamon to Easy Peach Galette Recipe
Next, add in a teaspoon of cinnamon. I’ve heard that cinnamon has health benefits, so now I just like to add it to as many recipes as possible.
Step 6: Add Melted Salted Butter
Then, melt 3/4 of a stick of butter. Afterward, add that into the bowl with the other ingredients.
Step 7: Mix Ingredients & Add a Splash of Lemon Juice
I don’t know about you, but I like to add a little lemon juice to everything. For this mixture, just add a splash of lemon juice if you love it too.
Step 8: Place Peaches into Pie Crust
Then, once you have mixed your ingredients, place them in the center of your pie crust. Well, I guess I should rephrase that to say to add them to your galette crust. 🙂
How Do You Shape a Galette?
So, not to say, I am not crafty, but I really struggle with any type of fancy cooking or baking task. Perhaps, I need practice or it just isn’t in my skill set. Either way, if I can create and shape a galette, anyone can. Simply cover the peach mixture, and then fold each side to the right. Hence, you are forming a not-so-perfect circle of folded layers of pie crust.
Step 9: Fold Crust
After placing the mixture, fold the crust around the pile of peaches. At this point, the pie crust should be easy to form as it has been sitting on the counter.
Step 10: Brush Mixture onto Galette
Next, take the leftover mixture in the bowl and brush it onto the galette. Any type of pastry brush will do.
Step 11: Bake Easy Peach Galette Recipe for 30 Minutes
Next, place the galette on a cookie sheet with parchment paper and bake for thirty minutes on 350°. Not to worry, the mixture will seep out of the sides of the galette. That’s just fine.
How Do You Know When a Galette Is Done?
Personally, this is all up to your crust preference. For me, I like it to be soft yet a little crisp. For my grandmother, she might want to slightly burn the crust or in her eyes brown the top of the galette. So due to these changing ranges, after the thirty-minute mark has passed, I would keep an eye out for your desired shade of crust.
Easy Peach Galette Recipe Ingredients
Can I Freeze a Galette?
So with any pastry, you can really just prepare it and then wrap it tightly to freeze. With this particular peach galette, I would make the treat, and then freeze it without baking it. You can keep it in your freezer for about three months.
Nonetheless, when the delicious peaches hit the fruit bins at the farmer’s market, I will be creating quite a few of these peach galettes to store in the freezer. Not to say that they will stay there for very long, but I will be stocked up for guests and brunch treats all summer long.
Recipe in Action
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Enjoy your peach dessert with ice cream, whip cream, or plain and simple.
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