Galette des rois
Ingredients
cream patissiere
- milk | 30cl
- white sugar | 60g
- egg yolk | 2
- maizena | 30g
- vanilia pod | 2
Almond cream
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almond powder | 200g
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white sugar | 160g
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butter | 100g
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egg | 2
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2 puff pastry (pate feuilletée)
Steps for the cream patissiere
Mix the egg yolks and sugar together until the yellow turn white.
Add the maizena to the mix.
In the meantime, put the milk to boil with the vanilia inside.
Once the milk is hot, pour some of it into the egg/sugar mix and mix it well.
Then pour back the mix into the pan, lower the fire and mix continiously until the cream forms.
Steps for the almond cream
Take the butter out of the fridge a bit before so it become soft.
Once soft enough, work it with a wooden spoon to soften it even more.
Add the sugar and mix it up.
Then add the egg and mix up.
Finally add the almond powder.
Steps for the galette
Mix the cold cream patissiere and the almond cream together to make the franginpane.
Put the frangipane onto some puff pastry.
Circle it with some egg yolk and recover it all with some puff pastry.
The egg yolk will act like a glue and seal the puff pastry together.
Cover the top of the galette with some egg yolk and decorate the pastry.
Finally, make sure to add a little chimney at the top of the galette.
Cook at 200 degrees for 10 minutes then 170 degrees for 20 minutes.
Notes
- the good ratio is 2/3 almond cream and 1/3 cream patissiere, so maybe half all the patissiere measures
- could add some rhum in the almond cream
- could try to reduce a bit sugar and almond quantities