Sometimes you feel like pie, but you don’t feel like actually making pie. Sometimes you feel like eating a slice of pie, but you don’t feel like eating pie leftovers for a week. Sometimes a galette for two might be just the thing you are looking for. Guys, I love galettes. They have all the trappings of pie without the all the fussy bits. No one’s spending 45 minutes creating a perfectly braided lattice top for a galette. You roll some pie dough out to something vaguely resembling a circle, fill it with fruit, fold it, and bake. It’s perfectly perfect in its imperfection. See Also: Easy Dutch Apple Pie You can turn most fruit pies into a galette, but given that this is September and apple season is just getting started, I thought we’d kick off this galette train with a Dutch Apple Galette for Two.
This dessert is good-looking enough to serve for a special occasion, but simple enough to make on a random Saturday afternoon when you feel like bumming around the kitchen for a while. (This recipe was born in my kitchen on just such a Saturday. ;)) And if making a pie from scratch is something you’ve never gotten around to, a galette is a great place to start building your pie-making muscles. It takes half the effort and less than half the skill since there’s no fussy top to work with. Plus, since we are using my favorite–and after being pinned 16,000+ times on Pinterest, I’m going to say, Famous–buttermilk pie crust, you know this dough is going to be easy to make and easy to work with. I LOVE IT.
Okay, I’ve been singing the praises of galettes in general, but why should you make a Dutch Apple Galette specifically? Because it’s knock-you-down fantastic. The crust is flakey and dusted with sugar. The apples are cooked to sweet cinnamon perfection. And hey, do you like streusel topping? Because I’ll give you streusel topping. This thing is piled high (some might say too high (NOT ME!)) with streusel, which offers a fantastic sweet and slightly crunchy contrast with the apples and buttery pie crust. Serve it hot, straight out of the oven. Serve it drizzled in caramel sauce. Serve it with a comically large scoop of ice cream and take hasty pictures of it before devouring it at 9 in the morning. The only bad option is not serving it at all.
More Perfect Fall Desserts
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