Savor the warm flavors of this Apple Cranberry & Walnut Galette with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, served at your next holiday gathering! Most exciting, this dough recipe can be used to make any other galette variation or even a pie crust. This galette can be served warm, room temperature, or cold. Recipe via Dayla Rubin. For more recipes from Dalya, visit itsrainingflour.com!
Egg Wash (1 Egg whisked with 2 Tbsp Water or Milk of choice)
Sugar, to sprinkle as garnish
5 Tbsp
Vegan Butter or Unsalted Butter, cut into ½-inch cubes
Instructions
Dough
Sift together flours and salt in a medium bowl.
Add cubed cold butter. Use fingers to lightly toss the butter cubes in the flour until they’re lightly coated. No mixing!
Next, use your thumb and pointer finger to squash each piece of butter so it becomes flat, pushing in the flour as you “shingle it.” You’re looking to create flattened pieces of butter that are getting a bit of flour pressed into it. Make sure all your butter is “shingled.”
Slowly drizzle ¼ cup ice water into the bowl and use your hands to toss everything together. Don’t mush the butter or mix with a spoon or stand mixer. Add more water and toss the bowl contents together until there is no more floury mixture at the bottom of the bowl and you are left with big and small chunks of dough. Don’t overwork your mixture, be very light with it.
Transfer dough chunks to a large piece of plastic wrap or parchment paper and use your hands to press it into a rectangle, about ½-inch high. Wrap in the plastic/parchment and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Filling
Peel, core and slice apples ¼-inch thick.
In a non-stick skillet with high sides, add butter and melt over medium-low heat.
Mix apple slices with lemon juice in a bowl.
Once the butter is melted, add in the sliced apples and cook for 4-5 minutes over medium-low heat, stirring every 30 seconds. The apple slices should still be intact, just a bit softer.
Next, add in the cinnamon, salt and vanilla extract. Mix and cook for another 2 minutes.
In a small bowl mix together brown sugar with flour and tapioca. Pour this mixture into the apples and mix until combined.
Add cranberries and chopped walnuts. Fold together until coated in the gooey-sugary filling.
Cook another 2 minutes to thicken the filling. Then, remove pan from heat and transfer to a sheet pan (or bowl) to cool.
To Assemble
On a large piece of parchment paper, roll the dough into a large circle, about ⅛-inch thick.
Sprinkle almond flour over most of the dough circle, leaving 2 inches without along the perimeter.
Add most of the cranberries and walnuts, starting at the edge of the almond flour and going in toward the center. Next, use your hands to start arranging the apple slices in a circle (from the outer edge, inward). Add leftover cranberries and walnuts randomly between layers of apple. For a faster, less neat version, dump the filling mixture into the center of the dough and spread out to the edge of the almond flour circle.
Once the center of the dough is filled, brush the 2-inch empty perimeter with water.
Use the parchment paper to help fold the sides of the dough in towards the center and secure by pinching the connected areas together. Do this around the circle of dough.
Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes while the oven preheats to 400°F.
Before baking, brush the dough rim with egg wash and sprinkle the edges (not the center filling) with sugar. Place pats of butter on top of the filling inside the galette dough to keep it moist.
Bake for 35-45 minutes. *If the dough looks dry, brush it with melted butter at the 35 minute mark.