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Cherry and Almond Cream Crostata

lynn
A rustic crostata (or galette) featuring cherries and almond cream.
4.29 from 7 votes
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Additional Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 45 minutes
Course Baking Recipes + Tips
Cuisine French
Servings 1 crostata
Calories 2884 kcal

Equipment

Ingredients
  

Crostata Pastry

  • 1 cup flour
  • 2 TBS sugar
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 stick unsalted butter very cold, diced
  • 2 TBS ice cold water

Almond Cream

  • 1 cup slivered almonds mine were not blanched, so you can see bits of the brown skin. Use blanched if you would prefer to avoid the brown bits
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tsp Amaretto or almond extract
  • 2 TB butter
  • 1 egg

Cherry Filling

  • 1 pound cherries pitted, fresh or frozen. If frozen, then thaw and drain
  • 1 TBS sugar
  • 2 TBS corn starch

Instructions
 

Pastry

  • Place flour, sugar and salt in the bowl of your food processor.
  • Pulse to combine
  • Add butter all at one and pulse 10-15 times until butter is pea-sized
  • With motor running, add ice water all at one time through the feed tube.
  • Pulse until dough just starts to come together
  • Remove from food processor and pour onto wax paper.
  • Form dough into a round and wrap in wax paper and refrigerate for at least one hour.

Almond Cream

  • Add almonds and powdered sugar to bowl of food processor and process until the consistency of cornmeal.
  • Add butter, vanilla and Amaretto or almond extract and process until a thick pudding consistency.
  • Add egg and process until creamy.
  • Set aside

Cherries

  • Combine fresh or drained, frozen cherries with cornstarch and sugar and set aside

To Assemble Crostata

  • Preheat oven to 450'F
  • Put chilled crostata dough on a piece of parchment paper on your baking sheet.
  • Roll out dough until approximately 11" in diameter
  • Pour almond cream into the middle of the dough, leaving about 2" of dough around the perimeter.
  • Add cherries on top of almond cream
  • Pull up the sides of the crostata
  • Bake at 450 for 20-25 until crust is golden brown
  • Let cool and serve warm or at room temperature.

Nutrition

Serving: 1gCalories: 2884kcalCarbohydrates: 302gProtein: 47gSaturated Fat: 78gCholesterol: 467mgSodium: 866mgFiber: 26gSugar: 158g
Keyword almond, cherry, crostata, dessert, recipe
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