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This apple and blackberry galette is a British classic. Sweet blackberries paired with bramley apples makes one of the best flavour combos, and a family favourite.
I had the wonderful opportunity to go to Nottingham’s City centre yesterday. Note the sarcasm.
I mean, I love shopping as much as the next girl, but my plan of going to the city centre at 4pm, thinking it would totally be nice and quiet failed.
Let’s just say it is one of the busiest times with everyone rushing around trying to make their way home.
Since I have an invisible illness, no-one is able to tell I’m not so steady on my feet. Either that, or people just don’t care anymore, because the amount of times people literally push past you in a hurry is such a pain — literally!
I feel like getting myself a mobility scooter for these types of occasions. Would it be so bad of me to mow down those ignorant peeps? Muahhaaaha.
But if you can’t beat them, join them! 😆 I was on a mission to get to Waitrose in Nottingham. They’re the only supermarket which stocks Karo corn syrup, and well, I am running low. However, once I got there I quickly realised it was one of those mini supermarkets, and they only stocked the corn syrup at the larger store, not of which directly in Nottingham.
Ah well, I had better plans in mind. I was planning on making an exotic galette, but again, the little Waitrose didn’t stock any exotic fruits as the bigger ones did. I think a trip to the bigger Waitrose is definitely in order.
I thought I’d go for a classic with a twist, an apple and blackberry galette. 🙂
This apple and blackberry galette has perfectly seasoned apples and sweet juicy blackberries, then beautifully wrapped in a rich buttery flaky crust.
I love how blackberries just pop in your mouth. Sweet and tart, they certainly complement apples.
This galette is right up my alley with the flavour combo. What fruit combos do you like?
Apple & Blackberry Galette
Yield: 9-10" galette
Prep Time: 25 minutes
Cook Time: 50 minutes
This apple and blackberry galette is a British classic. Sweet blackberries paired with bramley apples makes one of the best flavour combos, and a family favourite.
Ingredients:
For the Pastry
- 1¼ cups (156g) plain (all-purpose) flour
- 6 tbsp (85g) unsalted butter, cold and cubed
- 2 tbsp (26g) shortening, cold and cubed, see notes
- 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- ½ - 1 tbsp ice cold water
For the Filling
- 2 bramley (cooking) apples, cored and sliced
- 225g (1 punnet) blackberries
- 2 tsp vanilla bean paste
- 150g (¼ cup) brown sugar
- ¼ tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp nutmeg
- 2 tbsp cornflour (cornstarch)
- 1 egg, beaten
- 2 tbsp vanilla sugar
Directions:
- To make the pastry, add the flour, butter, shortening, and sugar into a food processor and blitz until a breadcrumb consistency is reached. Then add the ice water until a dough forms. Roll into a 12″ circle between 2 layers of parchment and chill in the refrigerator for 15-30 minutes. Rolling between parchment paper first chills the dough faster.
- To make the filling, peel, core and slice the apples then place in a large bowl with the blackberries. Add the vanilla bean paste, brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg and fold in until it coats all the fruit.
- Transfer dough to a baking tray then brush the egg onto the chilled dough using a pastry brush. Spoon the fruits into the centre of the dough leaving a 2-3 inch border. Carefully fold up the sides tucking in over the fruit. Sprinkle the vanilla sugar over the dough then place in the freezer to chill again for 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/gas mark 5.
- Bake the galette for 50-55 minutes until the crust is golden and the juice runs free.
- Allow to cool. Serve warm.
Notes
For shortening in the UK, use Trex.
Adapted from Blahnik Baker.
That is an absolutely beautifully looking galette. Fantastic job! 🙂
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Happy Valley Chow
Thanks a lot, Eric. 🙂
I love this! Ahh man, now I’m hungry.
Thanks Emma. I’m always hungry myself! 😆
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This galette looks so nice! I would love a little slice! Ok, a big one 😀
Hehe, I had 2 rather large slices myself. Nothing wrong with a door wedge sized portion. 😉
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What a lovely galette, it looks utterly delicious 😀
Apple and berry is a great combo!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
It is, Uru. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by.
Gorgeous galette! Love the apple blackberry apple combo!
Thanks Jessica, it’s one of my favourite combos too.
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Galettes are such the perfect combo of hassle-free and fancy 😀 Simple to prep, fancy when you take ’em out of them oven. And I love the berries!!
Darn, I can’t keep anything from you, Dect. Jess. I think you’ve unveiled the reason why this is a galette and not a pie. The simple fact that even when your pastry is a mess, a galette will fix it all up for you. It’s the rustic charm! 😆
Thanks for stopping by Jess.
I love apple and blackberry, but only in season so we tend to eat lots of crumbles, pies and these in Autumn when we get crops off the farm/hedges.
I never knew they were called galettes though!
That’s the great thing about the supermarkets here, you can still fresh produce even when it is out of season. Gotta’ love that. I’m even thinking about having some strawberry, raspberry and blackberry bushes in my garden!
A galette is basically the same as a tart – a sweet shortcrust pastry base with the fruit layered on the top. They’re so much easier and quicker to make, yet have that fancy yet rustic look when baked.
Thanks for stopping by, Emma.
Wow you are so talented. That looks absolutely delicious. I did the Capri-Sun shop.
Liska xx
Aww, thank you Liska. I saw your Capri-Sun shop. I would have applied for that one too, but I didn’t see it.
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Better then having the recipe, would be having you make it for me. Thanks for the little inside peek into your market, wish I could go along next time as your bodyguard!
I’d love to make one for you Kim, and yup, c’mon over and be my bodyguard. We’ll smash through them all together! 🙂
The shop is just one of our supermarkets here in the UK. I did a sponsored shop with them. Thanks for stopping by.
What a gorgeous dessert! Could bite into that right now!
Thank you Sheila, and thanks for stopping by and leaving a sweet comment.
Hi Lisa! Stopping by from Show Stopper Saturday, and noticed your gorgeous galette! I must make this sometime soon, preferably to enjoy with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream on top! 😉 PS – photos are gorgeous. Keep up the fantastic work. I look forward to stopping by again soon. ~Erin
Aww, thank you so much, Erin. I just stopped by your site and could say the same thing about your desserts too. Sounds perfect with a big ol’ scoop of ice cream too. Think I’ll have to go make another just for that.
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I looooooove this combination and I am actually also thinking of baking with blackberries veeery soon 😀 They are just delicious and season is always way too short… 🙁
love, rebecca
Me too Rebecca, me too. I can’t get enough of this combo. Not sure if it’s a Brit thing though. 😆 Can’t wait to see what you come up with, I’m sure it’ll be amazing as usual anyway. Oddly the seasons tend to be too short (yet when it’s the rainy seasons, they dragggg!)
I managed to pick up one of those tart tins I was looking for locally too – yay! Thanks for stopping by, Rebecca.
great that you could get this tart tin! 🙂 cant wait to see what you will make 😉
love, rebecca
Lisa I saw this galette on show stopper and pinned it a while back. Had no idea you loved my recipe 🙂 thanks!!
Thanks Zainab. If my WordPress trackbacks were working (damn them), you would have known it was your recipe I used and adapted.
It was absolutely and utterly gorgeous too. Think I’ll be making a different variety again since it was that good! 🙂
it looks delicious!
Thanks Dina, it certainly was. The next one needs to be bigger, much bigger!
I love galettes! I was thinking of making one tomorrow, but this one is so pretty! My name is Katie and I host Inspired Weekends, now open. All entries get pinned. I would love to have you link up!
Thanks for stopping by commenting and inviting me to your party. I’ve linked up the galette, and a few other recent recipes too.
This looks super yummy, Lisa! I wanted to let you know that it is one of the features on my blog today from our Summer in Bloom link up party. You had so many delicious looking posts, it was hard to choose just one! Your staging is amazing. Thanks so much for taking the time to link up some summer recipes with us!