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Sweet Cherry Galette

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A hint of lemon, almond and brown sugar bring out the season’s best in this rustic Sweet Cherry Galette. Use an all butter pastry, or go dairy free with a vegan pastry. 

Sweet Cherry Galette topped with ice cream and several spoons digging in.

Table of Contents

  • Pastry: a Work in Progress
  • Quick Guide: How to Make Sweet Cherry Galette
  • A Free Form Rustic Pie
  • Make with Butter or Coconut Oil Pastry
  • A Few Recipe Notes
  • More Cherry Recipes to Love
  • Sweet Cherry Galette Recipe

Pastry: a Work in Progress

Working with pastry will forever be a work in progress. Although the recipe may be the same each and every time, temperature control, creativity and patience are factors that always seem to vary when working with it.

Knowing when the dough is too warm, too cold, or sticky or how long you can push for that golden color in the oven to get it dark, but not too dark, takes hands on experience.

This is why I crave working with pastry. The more I work with it, the more familiar it becomes.

Yet it challenges me.

It forces me to be patient, creative and to pay attention to what I’m doing in the moment.

 Overhead shot of sweet cherry galette ingredients. Bing cherries lined up on a marble table with a tea towel off to the side.     Pitting bing cherries with a cherry pitter and a bowl full of pitted cherries. Macerating cherries in a bowl with brown sugar and lemon.     A pastry round with a wood rolling pin covered in flour.

Quick Guide: How to Make Sweet Cherry Galette

Super simple to pull together and makes a beautiful presentation, here’s how to make this rustic pie (see recipe card for details):

  • First, in a large mixing bowl, mix the cherries, brown sugar, corn starch, extract, lemon zest and juice, and salt together. Set aside.
  • Second, roll out the pie dough and place on a parchment lined sheet pan. 
  • Third, fill the galette with the cherry mixture and fold the edges of the pastry up and over the cherries to about 1″ in. 
  • Next, brush milk over the pastry, all the way around then sprinkle with sugar. 
  • Last, bake the galette, then rest at room temperature for about 10 minutes. 

Share this cherry galette warm with vanilla bean ice cream.

Sweet cherry galette resting on a parchment paper with glass of milk, pastry brush and jar of sugar on the side.

A Free Form Rustic Pie

Galettes are a lazy way to an impressive dessert. They’re beautiful, in their own rustic right. 

A galette is much simpler to pull together than a traditional pie. Its shape is free form. There’s no cutting, pinching, crimping, par baking and/or latticing when making a galette. Simply roll out the dough, fill it, fold it, chill, milk-wash the crust, sprinkle with sugar then bake.

Galettes are a perfect way to ease into pastry if it’s something that seems daunting. Or if one is simply feeling a little lazy.

Patience. Practice. Breathe…

Sweet Cherry Galette topped with several spoons on the side ready to dig in.

Make with Butter or Coconut Oil Pastry

For the cherry galette pictured here, I opted for a coconut oil pastry. I find it easier to work with than a butter-buttermilk pastry simply because I don’t have to refrigerate it prior to rolling and it’s luxuriously pliable. Because of this, it comes together quicker and produces a just as flakey and delicious crust as its counterpart. And, because of this, it speaks to my inner lazy girl.

If you’re just starting out with pastry, this dough is a good one to ease into. But either pastry will do… even a store bought pastry in a pinch. 

 Sweet Cherry Galette topped with ice cream and several spoons digging in.

A Few Recipe Notes

  • For this recipe, make it butter filled or dairy free! Use my coconut oil pastry (pictured) or traditional pie pastry. 
  • Because the bake is long, this cherry galette can head to the oven as dinner is getting underway and be ready just in time for dessert.
  • Most importantly, enjoy this rustic pie warm with your favorite ice cream or give my vegan bourbon vanilla bean ice cream a go.

More Cherry Recipes to Love

  • Honey Sweetened Cherry Limeade
  • Cherry Almond Smoothie Bowl
  • Cherry Almond Cake
  • Vegan Bourbon Cherry Ice-Cream
Sweet Cherry Galette topped with ice cream and several spoons digging in.
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Sweet Cherry Galette Recipe

Prep Time:10 minutes
Cook Time:50 minutes
Total Time:1 hour
Servings:8 Servings
Calories:202kcal
Author:Traci York | Vanilla And Bean
A hint of lemon, almond and brown sugar bring out the season's best in this rustic Sweet Cherry Galette. Use my buttermilk pie dough for a vegetarian option, or as written/pictured with a coconut oil pie crust for a vegan galette. Recipe makes 1, 8" (20cm) galette. 

Ingredients

For the Galette:

  • 3 1/2 C (500g) Pitted Bing Cherries (about 1lb)
  • 1/3 C + 2 Tbs (90g) Packed Light Brown Sugar
  • 3 Tbs Organic Corn Starch
  • 1 tsp Almond Extract
  • 1 Lemon zested
  • 2 tsp Lemon Juice
  • 1/4 tsp Fine Sea Salt
  • 1 Recipe for Single Pie Crust Pastry Use coconut oil pie crust* for dairy free Or use my butter, buttermilk pie dough - see note

To Finish the Galette:

  • Nut Milk of Choice I use homemade cashew
  • 1-2 Tbs Turbinado Sugar

Instructions

  • In a large mixing bowl, throughly mix the cherries, brown sugar, corn starch, extract, lemon zest and juice, and salt together so that no white patches of the starch remain. Set aside.
  • Line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Make room in the refrigerator to chill the galette, on the sheet pan, prior to baking. Generously dust a work surface with flour. Roll out the pie dough to between 14"-15" (35cm-38cm) or about 1/8" (3mm) thick, reflouring the work surface and pin as needed to make sure the dough doesn't stick. Roll the dough over and onto the rolling pin and transfer the dough, unrolling it onto the parchment lined sheet pan. It's okay if the dough hangs over the edges. We'll fold them in soon.  
  • Spoon the cherries and their juices on to the pastry keeping them in the center as much as possible leaving between a 2"-3" (5cm-7cm) pastry boarder. They should overlap some. Fold the pastry inward working around the cherries, pleating the pastry 7-8 times as you work your way around.
    Cover galette with plastic wrap and rest in the refrigerator for at least 20 minutes and up to an hour. 
  • While the galette is resting, set oven rack to the center of the oven and preheat to 375F ( 190C). Just before baking, Use a pastry brush to throughly brush on the milk. Sprinkle galette, pastry and cherries with turbinado sugar.
    Bake galette for 45-50 minutes rotating once while baking. The pastry should be golden and crisp when ready. Allow to set for 10 minutes before serving. Serve with vanilla bean ice cream. 
  • Store galette at room temperature for up to three days. The galette can be reheated in a 350F oven for about 10 minutes if needed. 

Notes

This recipe can be made with a one disk of Buttermilk Pie Dough or Coconut Oil Pie Dough.
Nutrition is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate. If this information is important to you, please have it verified independently.
Calories: 202kcal | Carbohydrates: 43g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 247mg | Potassium: 191mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 19g | Vitamin A: 39IU | Vitamin C: 12mg | Calcium: 23mg | Iron: 1mg
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