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A cranberry apple galette sitting on a wire rack on a kitchen counter.

Cranberry Apple Galette

Author: Gail Ng
This cranberry apple galette is made with a crispy and flaky pie crust filled with tart and jammy cranberry apple filling
5 from 12 votes
Prep Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Chilling Time 3 hours
Total Time 5 hours 15 minutes
Yield 6 servings
Category Dessert
Cuisine American

Equipment

Ingredients
  

Galette Crust

  • 170 g all-purpose flour
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 115 g unsalted butter, cold and roughly cubed
  • 70 g ice cold water

Cranberry Filling

  • 300 g cranberries, fresh or frozen
  • 150 g granulated sugar
  • 150 g water

Apple Filling

  • 2 tart apples, thinly sliced
  • 50 g brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon cornstarch

Egg Wash

  • 1 large egg, beaten
  • 2 tablespoons sugar crystals or coarse sugar

Instructions
 

Galette Crust

  • Cut butter into flour: In a large mixing bowl, stir together flour and salt. Add the cold butter and toss to coat in the flour. Press the butter in between your fingers to break them down into small, pea-sized pieces, tossing to coat in the flour occasionally.
    Left to right: cubes of butter in a bowl of flour, hand holding a handful of flour to show the pea-sized butter pieces.
  • Hydrate the dough: Make a well in the middle of the flour mixture. Pour in ice-cold water and mix together until it becomes a shaggy dough.
    Left to right: pouring water into a well in a bowl of flour, hand holding a handful of shaggy dough.
  • Fold dough: Turn the dough out onto a sheet of plastic wrap. Press the dough together with your hands and roughly fold it onto itself 2-3 times with your hands or a bench scraper until there aren't many dry patches left.
    Left to right: hands pressing dough together, hands folding dough onto itself.
  • Chill dough: Shape the dough into a flattened disc shape and wrap it in plastic wrap. Chill the dough in the fridge for at least 3 hours or preferably overnight.
    Left to right: hand pressing dough down to flatten, hands holding a disc of pie dough wrapped in plastic wrap.

Cranberry Filling

  • Cook: In a small pot, add cranberries, sugar, and water. Cover and bring it to a boil on medium-high heat. Be careful as the cranberries will pop as they cook. When the popping subsides, uncover and continue cooking until most of the water has evaporated and it becomes a thick, jammy cranberry paste. Remove from heat and transfer to a bowl to cool completely before using it.
    Left to right: pouring water into a pot of cranberries and sugar, spatula held above a pot to show the jammy consistency of cranberry sauce.
  • Prep: Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
  • Roll out dough: On a floured surface, roll your chilled pie dough in a rough circle until it's about ⅛" thick, lifting and turning the dough occasionally to prevent it from sticking to the counter. Transfer the dough to your lined baking sheet and let it chill in the fridge while you prepare the apples.
    Left to right: rolling out a disc of pie dough with a rolling pin, placing rolled out dough onto baking sheet.

Apple Filling

  • Mix: In a large bowl, toss together the apple slices, brown sugar, cinnamon, and cornstarch until the apples are coated. Sort the apple slices back into clusters of similar size and shape like they were when you were slicing them.
    Left to right: a bowl of apple slices and brown sugar, mixing apple slices in brown sugar mixture.
  • Add cranberry filling: Spread the cooled cranberry filling in the middle of the pie dough, leaving about 1-2" of the edge empty.
    Left to right: adding cranberry filling to pie dough, spreading cranberry filling across pie dough with a spatula.
  • Add apple filling: Arrange the clusters of apple slices on top of the cranberry filling, alternating the orientation of each cluster.
    Left to right: hands placing a cluster of apple slices on top of pie dough, apple slices arranged on top of pie dough.
  • Create crust: Fold the edges of the pie crust over the filling, overlapping as needed.
    Hands folding edges of dough over to form a galette crust.
  • Apply egg wash: Use a pastry brush to brush the dough with a beaten egg. Sprinkle sugar crystals or coarse sugar on top of the egg wash.
    Left to right: brushing egg wash on galette dough with a pastry brush, hand sprinkling sugar crystals onto galette crust.
  • Chill & preheat: Place the whole baking sheet with the galette in the fridge to chill while you preheat the oven to 350°F. Chilling the galette before baking will help any softened butter firm up for flaky layers and help the crust keep its shape.
  • Bake: Bake the galette for 45-55 minutes or until the crust is golden brown and the filling is bubbling. Let the galette cool on the baking sheet for at least 30-60 minutes or until the bottom of the pan is cool enough to touch with your bare hand. Serve warm with ice cream and sugared cranberries.

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Nutrition

Calories: 450kcal | Carbohydrates: 73g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 68mg | Sodium: 116mg | Potassium: 164mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 46g | Vitamin A: 582IU | Vitamin C: 10mg | Calcium: 33mg | Iron: 2mg
Keywords cranberry apple galette, cranberry apple pie
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