Learn how to make this delicious apple French Galette des Rois (king cake) recipe, featuring a crispy and light homemade puff pastry, filled with almond cream and pieces of soft, cinnamon-flavored apples.
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To complete the series of delicious desserts for Epiphany, and to offer a change from the traditional frangipane king cake, here is the apple king cake.
This delicious recipe consists of 3 parts: a crispy, light, and very easy-to-make homemade puff pastry, which may seem intimidating for pastry beginners but is quite manageable.
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Ingredients Notes
You need these ingredients to make this apple almond galette:
- Puff pastry: Homemade puff pastry, which can be replaced by inverted puff pastry, quick puff pastry or 2 rolls of store-bought puff pastry.
- Frangipane cream: A mixture of soft butter with powdered sugar, eggs, almond powder and a flavoring such as vanilla, vanilla bean, rum or orange blossom water.
- Apple: Use ripe apples with juicy flesh. You can replace them with pears or other fruits of your choice, or directly with applesauce.
- Cinnamon: optional but essential for flavoring the apples.
How to make Apple French Galette des Rois
Here are some quick visual instructions. Don't forget that full instructions with exact ingredients can be found in the main recipe card below!
- Puff pastry: Prepare the puff pastry or simply take 2 discs of store-bought puff pastry.
- Cut the apples into pieces or strips and place in a saucepan over a low heat with the powdered cinnamon.
- Cook for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally with a tablespoon, until slightly softened.
- Allow the apples to cool completely before using them to garnish the galette.
- Place all the ingredients in a bowl, including the chopped butter, powdered sugar, almond meal and eggs.
- Using an electric mixer, beat for 2 minutes at medium speed until smooth.
Assembly
- Roll out the dough with a rolling pin to a thickness of 3 mm and cut out 2 large disks with a tart ring or large plate.
- Place the first disk on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper and place the filling in the center, the almond cream and the apples.
- Moisten the edges with a pastry brush and water.
- Cover with the second disk of dough and seal the edges with your fingers.
- Apply a layer of egg wash with a brush and scratch the top with a knife in the pattern of your choice.
Baking
- Preheat oven to 356°F / 180°C.
- Bake the cake in the oven for about 45 minutes until it has a nice golden color.
- Let it cool completely before serving.
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Apple French Galette des Rois
- Total Time: 1 hour 25 minutes
- Yield: 10 servings
Description
The recipe for the Apple French galette des rois, a super crispy puff pastry, almond cream and a cinnamon melting apple filling. (for a cake of 10 inch / 25 cm diameter 10-12 servings)
Ingredients
Puff pastry dough
Almond cream
- 100 g (½ cup) of Unsalted Butter - softened
- 60 g (¼ cup) of granulated sugar
- 2 Eggs - room temperature
- 100 g (1 cup) of Almond flour
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
Apple filling
- 3 apples
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
Instructions
- Homemade puff pastry dough
- For homemade puff pastry, follow my recipe which can be found here in my article on the frangipane galette des rois.
Almond cream
- Place the soft butter in a container and mix with an electric mixer or whisk.
- Add the sugar and almond powder and mix again.
- Finish by incorporating the eggs and mix until smooth.
- Then cover with cling film and place in the fridge until assembled.
Apple filling
- Peel the apples and cut them into pieces.
- Then place them in a saucepan over medium heat.
- Let them cook for about 15 minutes, add the cinnamon powder. (the apples should remain in melting pieces, not pureed).
- Transfer the apples to a container and let them cool completely.
Assembly of the cake
- Roll out the puff pastry with a rolling pin to a thickness of 3 mm and cut out 2 large rounds of dough using a dessert circle.
- And place one round of dough on a baking sheet covered with baking paper.
- Using a pastry bag filled with almond cream, place a small layer of almond cream on the puff pastry circle, leaving a 5 cm border.
- Then place your apple pieces.
- And with a pastry brush, lightly moisten the edge of the cake.
- Finally, cover with the second round of puff pastry and seal the edges with your fingers.
Decorate the top of the galette des rois
- Scratch the galette des rois with a small blade, be careful not to press too much.
- Apply a layer of gilding to the beaten egg with the pastry brush.
- Place in the freezer for 10 minutes and then reapply a second layer of gilding.
Baking the Apple French galette des rois
- Preheat your oven to 180°C.
- Bake the galette des rois for about 45 minutes, until it is golden brown.
- Allow the galette des rois to cool completely before serving.
Notes
Storage: Approx. 3 days at room temperature, covered with a cloth or in an airtight container, and 3 months in the freezer.
- Prep Time: 40 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: French
Nutrition
- Calories: 459
- Sugar: 11
- Sodium: 207
- Fat: 33
- Saturated Fat: 11
- Carbohydrates: 37
- Fiber: 3
- Protein: 7
- Cholesterol: 54
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