Name: Apple-Cranberry Galette
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 120 min
Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups AP flour; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/2 cup butter, cubed and cold; 1/2 cup cold vegetable shortening; 6-7 tablespoons ice water; 2 apples, cored and sliced thin; 1/3 cup granulated sugar; 1/2 tsp. cinnamon; 1 tsp. lemon juice; 1/2 cup cranberries; 1 tablespoons butter, small cubes

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This easy-to-make rustic Apple Cranberry Galette is a delicious fall favorite dessert with a buttery flaky crust filled with fresh apple slices and tart cranberries. No pie dish is required for this free-form pie.

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Thinking of making a pie but don't want something easier? This galette is the answer, I am here to tell you that galettes are just so much easier to make than a pie but you still get all the delicious fruit and flaky pie dough.

And, when apples and cranberries are in season, say hello to a favorite fall dessert.

You can also use this delicious fruit duo and make some tasty cakes, bread, or scones, and if you don't want to bake try an Apple Cranberry Salad or make this creamy Apple Cranberry Oatmeal.

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Gather your ingredients
What is a galette?
Let's bake a dessert
Tips on making pie dough
Galettes are easy to make
More tasty One Hot Oven recipes
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Apples, cranberries and cinnamon sticks. — Fresh apples and cranberries

Gather your ingredients

Store-bought pie dough
Or you can make your own with this Flaky Pie Dough Recipe.
Apples - I used pink lady apples for this recipe, but Fuji and Gala will also work.
Cranberries - you can use fresh or frozen
Granulated Sugar
Cinnamon
Lemon juice
Butter

What is a galette?

I am a true pie lover, but making galettes is really so much easier to make than a pie.

A true galette is a French pastry that is flat and made with bread dough or pastry dough. For those of you that don't like all the rolling and fitting pie dough into a pie pan, you should try making a galette. You simply roll pastry dough into a circle, add your filling, then fold the edges in and bake. So much easier than pie.

With the simplicity of this galette, you can quickly make this rustic tart, and unlike a pie that needs to sit for a while, you can slice your galette almost immediately. That means you get a warm slice of pastry-fruity goodness quicker.

Let's bake a dessert

Step 1. Make your pastry dough and roll the dough into a large circle. My dough recipe is for a double-crust pie so I always have plenty of dough for rolling.

Step 2. Next cut the dough into a 12" round circle. To make rolling dough easy I love using a muslin pastry cloth and a french rolling pin.

Important - at this time you need to transfer the dough to a baking sheet.

A rolled pie dough with a rolling pin on a white mat. — Roll out pie crust

Step 3. Core the apples and cut into thin slices then add them to a medium mixing bowl. Add the sugar, lemon juice, and cinnamon, and mix all together to coat.

Step 4. Start placing the apples in a round circle on the pie dough leaving at least an inch border.

Step. 5 Fold the dough around the apples then sprinkle the cranberries on top and into the little nooks and crannies.

Unbaked cranberry galette with apples. — Unbaked apple galette

Step 6. Almost done, you just have to dot the top of the apples with cold pieces of butter.

Butter cubes on top of an unbaked apple tart. — Add butter cubes on top

Step 7. Bake the galette in a 400-degree F. oven for 45 minutes. And here it is the most delicious apple galette with tender sweet cinnamon-spiced apples, and ruby cranberries all nestled in a golden brown crust. YUM!

Tips on making pie dough

Get everything cold, the colder the better.
Cut the butter into small cubes and put them in the freezer.
If you are using shortening, put that in a measuring cup and put that in the freezer too.
On really hot days you can even chill the flour to get it cold.
You don't want the butter or shortening to be melty, you want to see pieces of the fat in the dough.
For other tips on pie dough make sure to check out How to Make A Flaky Pie Crust.

And for those times you have left-over pie dough you can make my favorite treat, Jelly Roll Pie Tarts.

Galettes are easy to make

There are so many reasons I love making and eating galettes. They don't need a lot of fruit. I just used two apples, after all, we are not making a pie that is piled high with fruit.

You can use any type of fruit you want, so during the summer try using peaches, cherries, or raspberries. Mix the fruit with sugar and maybe a bit of lemon juice and dot with butter and that will make a luscious filling.

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~the crust is buttery and flaky and the fruit is tender and so flavorful ~

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First published: Nov 21, 2020, Last updated: Oct. 22, 2022, for better readability.

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From learning to cook on a farm in Indiana to culinary school in California, my passion for food is never-ending. Turning on my oven to bake something for friends and family is my happy place, and I am glad to be here at One Hot Oven sharing both sweet and savory family-friendly recipes for your cooking and baking inspiration.

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