Move over, watermelon and cucumber. Fresh, juicy, ripe peaches have taken over my kitchen. Peach recipes have sweet-talked their way to the top of my list of things to cook lately—so much so that I’ve decided to devote an entire week’s worth of posts to peaches. Welcome to Peach Week at Cookie and Kate!
We’re kicking off a series of four peach posts with a rustic stunner, the closest thing I’ve ever baked to pie: the blackberry peach galette. My galette is composed of a flaky whole wheat crust, lots of butter and sweetened with a bit of raw sugar and honey. The heavenly combination of blackberries and peaches almost makes up for the intolerable mid-summer heat. Trust me, this recipe merits the use of your poor neglected oven.
Blackberry Peach Galette
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- Prep Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Total Time: 2 hours 10 minutes
- Yield: 8 slices 1x
- Category: Dessert
This delicious blackberry and peach galette is made with a whole wheat crust. It’s a beautiful, rustic dessert that’s perfect for summer time!
Ingredients
Filling
- 5 ripe peaches, peeled and sliced
- 6 ounces of blackberries (one small container)
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons butter, cut into small pieces
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 tablespoon raw sugar
Whole wheat galette crust*
- 1 ¼ cups whole wheat pastry flour or whole wheat flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 8 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cubed
- 4–6 tablespoons ice water
- raw sugar, for dusting
Instructions
- Prepare the crust first, because you’ll need to chill it in the refrigerator. Whisk together the flour and salt in a large bowl.
- Use a pastry cutter (or a butter knife and your hands) to cut in the cold butter until the mixture has coarse crumbs.
- Add four tablespoons of ice water, and mix with a spoon until it starts coming together into a workable dough. Four tablespoons was just enough for my dough, but if it still looks dry, add one tablespoon of water at a time until you reach the right consistency.
- Form the dough into a disk, then wrap it tightly in plastic and refrigerate for one hour. You want the butter to be cold so the baked crust turns out flaky.
- In a bowl, mix together all of the filling ingredients.
- Once your dough has been refrigerated for nearly an hour, preheat the oven to 400 F. Line a baking sheet or a large jelly roll pan (the raised edges will catch escaping juices while the galette cooks) with parchment paper.
- Place your dough disk on a lightly floured work surface. Roll the dough out into approximately a 12-inch round. You don’t want any holes or extra thin spots, though, so don’t stretch it too far. Place the rolled dough onto your prepared baking pan.
- Add your filling: using your hands, transfer the filling to the center of the galette. Arrange the berries and peaches into a pleasing pattern, leaving about two inches of crust around the edges.
- Start at one end and fold the edge over the filling, pleating as you go around. A galette is meant to be rustic, so don’t worry if it doesn’t look perfectly uniform.
- Use a pastry brush or sprinkle cold water over the crust. Sprinkle a light dusting of raw sugar over the entire galette.
- Bake 35 to 45 minutes, until the crust is lightly golden. (The original recipe called for 25 to 35 minutes, but my galette took longer than 35 minutes.) Allow to cool slightly before cutting and serving.
Notes
- Filling inspired by Roost’s Alabama Peach and Blackberry Cobbler. Whole wheat crust very slightly adapted from Whole Living’s Zucchini Pesto Galette.
- *Whole Living suggested doubling the recipe and freezing half of the dough for later, which is what I did since I’m eager to try the zucchini pesto galette!
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dana @ my little cel
Beautiful! I made a galette a few weeks back and it went fast! My husband and I both absolutely loved it.
la domestique
I say yes to peaches and galettes! Happy peach week!
Sarah
Yum! My mouth is watering. Please bring one over any time.
Sherilyn (Wholepromi
I just want to reach into the computer and eat this. Looks great!
chinmayie
That looks soooo good! A week full of peach recipes is going to be great! Can’t wait to see what you will be cooking/baking :)
Maria@Orchard Bloom
This looks amazing! Going to give it a shot this weekend :)
Amanda Brooke
Absolutely beautiful! My mouth is literally watering.
Katrina
This looks perfect. I love how rustic this looks. Great recipe.
Tori (@eat-tori)
Oh my word- beautiful. I’m also having a peach thing at the moment. Clafoutis and salads- I threw some in today at lunch fennel, hazelnuts, leaves and some duck (the benefits of working from home). The peach absolutely made it.
Kasey
I can’t get enough of peaches! Beautiful, site.
Tara
the colours are gorgeous together. I’m loving the whole wheat crust, too.
Jess
I love galettes, but have not made one that has peaches and blackberries! Yum! Can’t wait to try it.
Jenna
I’ve had a hard time finding whole wheat pastry flour (I couldn’t even find it at Trader Joe’s!). Do you know how this would be with normal whole wheat flour? I was thinking that it might be ok since a galette probably doesn’t have to be fluffy like a cake.
Kate
I’m sorry for the delayed response, Jenna! I’m also sorry you’re having trouble finding whole wheat pastry flour. I can generally find it at Whole Foods and other health stores. I bet normal whole wheat flour or white whole wheat flour would work pretty well here, though!
Mary @ Fit and Fed
This looks so gorgeous, and there were still blackberries and peaches at my farmer’s market yesterday! I’m with you on the peaches. I’ve been hitting them hard all season I’m not touching pears until the peaches and blackberries are gone!
Christine
Thanks for the idea Kate! It was fun to make & pretty, however we probably won’t make again. We didn’t find this to be as scrumptious and indulgent as it looked, but I’m sure for someone who is more into tart pies, this would be a good recipe for them. I think we just have a sweeter tooth.
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Kate
Christine, I’m sorry this galette disappointed. It’s possible that your fruit wasn’t as sweet as mine. You can always add a drizzle of honey to pie-ish desserts to sweeten them up!
neki
Hi, I know this is not the case, but, do you have any recipe for making jams? I want to do cherry jam, they are in season, and then next month is blackberry season (I got for free collecting then in the forest and parks) so blackberry jam as well ;-)
LaTrice
I was wondering if you can use frozen fruit instead of fresh? I’m new to your blog, and I have an awesome friend who’s a vegetarian. Thank you, Kate!! :-)
valerie
Hi Kate and Cookie!
This looked amazing so I prepared it! With half of the nutmeg and still soo strong. I’ll explore more, without nutmeg, thinking of what I could add as spice. The dough is delicious, but next time i will prebake the bottom or as my (baker) husband suggest, scramble some ladyfingers in the mixture to absorb the juice… Anyway, it came out of the oven 4 hours ago, its almost gone, and we are just 2 :).
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bliljeberg
This is so simple but amazingly wonderful and tastey that I made it two weekends in a row!! Hooray for southern peaches and Virginian blackberries!! yUM
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Kate
Thank you for your review!
Kathrin
So tasty! I made it with peaches and plums from the market and ended up putting into a pie dish because I had so much fruit. It was really tasty that way too
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Ally Hunt
Hi Kate! I’ll be making this tonight for the first time but peaches have just gone out of season here (I’m in Australia) so are there alternate fruits I could use next time?
Kate
Hi Ally! Hope it turned out great. This recipe is an old one and I wish I had provided the weight of the peaches, which would help with substitutions. But yes, you could sub other fruits—apples might be nice, or you could use strawberries instead of peaches.