I have an announcement to make: This is our favorite item to date out of Dorie’s book,Baking: From My Home to Yours. Thanks to Michelle from Michelle in Colorado Springs for this week’s fabulous selection. It’s on the repeat list, and we thought it was so wonderful, I will be serving it to dinner guests in the future. Everything about the galette was absolutely delicious: the tender and buttery crust, the sweet white peach filling . . . .
What I changed: I cut the dough in half and made a smaller galette. I skipped the custard completely, 
because we didn’t need more calories, and because I didn’t want to detract from the flavor of the incredible white peaches that I had found. The skin on the fruit was so tender, I didn’t even have to peel it – just sliced it thinly and fanned it out over the pastry dough (yes, folks, I used one ONE peach!). I also used plum jam, and amaretti cookies, an idea that came courtesy of Ulrike over in the comments section of the TWD blog (be sure to check it out for links to the other participants). I froze the whole thing for 15 minutes before baking, per Dorie’s recommendation – it’s over 90 F over here, and the pastry really needed it. Then I brushed the pastry with cream, sprinkled it with sugar, and baked it. We devoured the galette in record time.
One more thing: as with the blueberry pie, I substituted low fat cream cheese for the shortening. This may well be my new favorite pie dough, too!
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I’m so glad that you liked the recipe. White peaches and amaretti cookies! sounds like perfection in a slice to me!
I’ve been dying to get my hands on Dorie’s book, but Amazon won’t deliver that particular book (along with several others) to Malaysia. It’s not fair! Especially since your galette looks so good.
Glad you liked the amaretti cookies :-), white peaches sound delicious!
I love the white peaches! Your galette looks wonderful.
Your galette looks wonderfully delicious! White peaches and amaretti, what a fabulous combination!
Man that looks yummy. Can I be the company you have over when you serve it 🙂
Thanks for the eye candy this morning.
I like the looks of this with the sliced peaches. Makes it look rustically elegant. And adding amaretti cookies rather than graham crackers. What a great idea. UUMMM!!!!
My that looks good! So perfect!
what a gorgeous galette! you didnt need the custard. it looks perfect as is;)
Lowfat cream cheese for the shortening! I love that idea! Anything to make this somewhat not as bad for you! Your galette looks just as you described it! Luscious!
Congrats on finding a new favorite! It looks delicious!
I used white peaches too and skipped the custard. Great minds….:)
I really should get this book.
Using amaretti cookies sound like a great idea.
Gorgeous! I love the white peaches. Is your cream cheese substitution for all of the shortening and butter or just shortening?
wow! this looks delicious. i love the cream cheese sub in the crust – great idea.
It looks delicious! Great job!
So pretty! May I have a slice? Please.
I love the cream cheese as a substitution. I just left the shortening out completely. The crust doesn’t need any more butter. We loved it, too. Yours is beautiful.
Man oh man…white peaches are good, but the custard is the perfect compliment to the fruit–even sparingly. Still, looks delicious 🙂
The cream cheese subbed for shortening is a smart idea. I will have to give that a try in the future. The galette is simply beautiful.
Agreed! Its my favorite Dorie recipe now (it 1-upped the lemon cream tart by a smidge). Too bad you didn’t try the custard. I thought it was amazing! But I hear ya on the extra calories. I couldn’t resist though…
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This sounds delish! I love the way the slices fan out, looks beautiful. :o)
This looks gorgeous! I love white peaches. Thanks for the tip on subbing low-fat cream cheese for the shortening. I just subbed w/ butter and that worked well too.
I thought the blueberry pie was my favorite, but the galette is running a close second. Yours looks beautiful and the white peach looks great fanned out.
Yay! It was my favorite too! Isn’t baking grand?
Oh, this galette looks so succulent! And the crust is perfectly caramelized! Just wonderful!
It looks so yummy! I have yet to try to bake myself this yummy treat!
Oh, lovely! Your flavor combinations sounds so delicious.
Wow, that is so gorgeous! I love the white peach and the photos are stunning. Awesome job!
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