TWD: Summer Fruit Galette

This week Michelle of Michelle in Colorado Springs chose Dorie's Summer Fruit Galette for us TWD bakers to make. I had been wanting to make a galette for a while now so I was pumped to finally get to make one. What I liked the most about this recipe was the flexibility in terms of the fruits you can use. In my case, I used nectarines, plums, cherries, and apricot preserves. I also used the leftover (frozen) dough I had from last month's Daring Bakers challenge as the base for the galette. The use of this dough lead to an interesting dessert because my galette came out more like a fruit pizza. While the dessert tasted good, neither Alex nor I were crazy about it. After much discussion about our reactions to this dessert and the last few desserts (cherry cobbler, blueberry pie), we have determined that we do not like desserts with baked fruits in them other than apple pie and banana bread. Sorry fruit. It's not you, it's us. We love to eat you just as you are, there's no need to cook or bake you. You are perfect right off the tree...

The Fruit.

Hello fruit!


The "Galette."

I actually took this week's recipe selection as inspiration for another summery dessert: Summer Danish Braid. I used the leftover fruit and poached them in an amaretto, water, and sugar mixture. Then I braided, baked, covered in powdered sugar, and photographed.

My mini-Danish Braid

The fruit was dying to get out.

Make sure to see what all the other bakers did this week on the TWD website.