Happy Pi Day everyone!
To start things off I have 2 lovely stone fruit galettes to share with you.
One is plum, the other peach. Both are quick and tasty!
I used this galette dough recipe from Fresh from the Oven, and I highly recommend it. The dough is thick, pliable, easy to work with, as well as buttery and flakey. It also makes enough for both galettes!
I was so excited last week when I remembered that today was Pi Day. I missed it last year and didn’t want to make the same mistake this year.
What type of pie are you going to make for Pi Day?
Stone Fruit Galettes
Ingredients:
- 2 cups flour
- 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, cold and diced
- 6 tbsp ice water
- 4 tbsp ricotta cheese
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2 medium peaches, sliced
- 4 small plums. sliced
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 4 tbsp turbinado sugar
To Make the Galettes:
- Make the dough: In a large bowl mix together the flour and 1/4 cup sugar. Drop in some of the diced butter and stir until the butter is coated in the flour. Continue with the remaining butter.
- Once all the butter is added use your hands to cut the butter into the flour. You will want to continue until the butter is pea sized. Add the water 1 tablespoon at a time while kneading the flour mixture. Add just enough water to form a ball with the dough.
- At this point split the dough in two pieces, wrap each piece well with plastic wrap and chill for at least 1 hour.
- After the dough has chilled make the ricotta filling. Do this by whisking together the ricotta, vanilla, and 2 tbsp sugar. Set aside. Slice the fruit into even sized pieces and set aside. Pre-heat the oven to 425 degrees F.
- Assemble the galettes: roll out one disk of dough on a well floured surface to a circle with a diameter of 9-11 inches. It should be fairly thick. Move the dough to your baking pan. Spread 2 tbsp of the ricotta mixture in a 6 inch diameter circle in the middle of the dough. Place 1 type of fruit in a decorative pattern on the ricotta mixture.
- Fold the edges of the dough up over the fruit. Brush with half of the heavy cream and sprinkle with 2 tbsp turbinado sugar. Repeat the process with the remaining dough and other ingredients. *Don’t forget to move your dough to the baking pan before topping with the ricotta and fruit. The plum galette looks the way it does because I forgot to do this….
Bake for 20-30 minutes, or golden brown and the fruit is bubbly. Allow to cool to room temperature before cutting and serving.
Check out these other awesome Pi Day recipes!
- The Kitchen : Chocolate Chess Pie
- Serious Eats : Pi Shaped Pie
- Love from the Oven : Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie
- Simple Bites : Rich Pie Crust Tutorial
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Beautiful galettes! My aunt used to make peach pies and there is just something about baked peaches that just is just so wonderful! I am so bad with keeping up with special holidays like Pi Day or food holidays! I need to put a calendar somewhere where I can keep it all straight! lol
Lol I usually miss them, but I was actually on it this time! And luckily I had everything I needed for the recipe.
How on earth did I miss Pi day? That’s got to be my all time favorite food holiday. (Unless it counts as a math holiday. Then I think I hate it.;)
Your galettes look gorgeous!
Lol I think it’s celebrating a bit of math..round things..and pie!
what a tempting galettes! I love pie especialy fruit pie, but I always failed to made the crust hehe
so.. I think I will made it when I got mu lure back to pie 
cheers
Yes! You can do it!
These look amazing! I’ve always wanted to get into galettes and just haven’t. Pi day is the perfect day to start! My daughter reminded me last night as I was saying good night by singing a special Pi Day version of “American Pie” by Don McClean (that 14-minute ballad, I think one of the longest songs to ever play on the radio). Thanks for this post!
Ahh yes! Classic song! It makes me think of karaoke… lol. If you give them a try use this crust recipe. It was tasty and the perfect thickness of any crust I have tried thus far.
I had a faint feeling yesterday that Pi Day was coming up but I kind of just brushed it off. Needless to say I have no pie recipe today. Glad you were more on the ball than me. This galette looks lovely!
Thank you! I knew I’d be out of town and not baking much so I planned ahead
Happy Pi Day! Those galettes look dreamy and delicious! I love stone fruits in anything! Beautiful photos too
Perfect for Pi day….I just love a galette! Yesterday afternoon, my oldest was sending texts to my daughter to remind me about pi day….but I needed a bit more notice…LOL.
What wonderful treats! I love stone fruit and wait all year for them to come in season. I just wish they’d come on when it wasn’t 100+ degrees outside, so baking with them wasn’t such a chore here in Florida!
Oooh yeah I bet that heat is killer! I don’t bake much when I am in South Carolina during the summer. That’s definitely ice cream season!
These both look fabulous! Wish I know it was pi day, I could go for some pie right about now!
What a great recipe!! I love it! I wish I new it was pie day, bnow I need to make one tonight!
I love Galettes! So classy and so delicious. I had to google how to pronounce it because I was too embarrassed to say it out loud until I knew if it was right or not!
Mmm, I love galettes and am looking so forward to fresh stone fruit being available soon
Wonderful recipes!
I love galettes! And this looks like the perfect way to celebrate Pi Day =)
Happy Belated pi day
! these galettes look scrumptious! I think I could devour a whole one 
!
Yum, yum!!!! Looks sooo delicious!!!!! congrats on top 9!!!!
Happy Pi Day indeed! These look terrific! Love simple pies like these. No fuss, but delicious!! Thanks for sharing!!
I’ve never made galettes before but they look gorgeous – a great variation on traditional fruit pie.