Every year about this time I start to see beautiful photos of rustic galettes pop up across the digital food world. Their simple, unassuming yet elegant form is the perfect way to highlight the natural flavors of fresh summer fruit. You don’t have to doll up a galette, just let the glory of fresh fruit do all the work. But want to know a little secret? You can make amazing galettes any time of year using frozen fruit, like this Blueberry Cream Cheese Galette!
What is a Galette?
A galette is a flat, free-form (no pan) pie or tart that can be made sweet or savory. They’re quite rustic, have very simplistic fillings, and don’t require any fancy bakeware, which makes them perfect for beginners.
Sweeten to Taste
My Lemon Blueberry Cream Cheese Galette is not super sweet. I tend to like fattier flavors over sweet when it comes to dessert, so I went light on the sugar. If you prefer a lot of sweetness, you can double the sugar in the dough and the cream cheese mixture.
Lemon Blueberry Cream Cheese Galette
Servings 6Ingredients
GALETTE CRUST*
- 1.5 cups flour (plus some for dusting) ($0.09)
- 1 tsp sugar ($0.02)
- Pinch salt ($0.01)
- 8 Tbsp cold butter ($1.07)
- 3 Tbsp ice water ($0.00)
LEMON BLUEBERRY FILLING
- 1/2 lb. blueberries (frozen or fresh) ($1.80)
- 1 Tbsp sugar ($0.02)
- 1 tsp cornstarch ($0.02)
- 1 fresh lemon ($0.75)
CREAM CHEESE FILLING
- 4 oz cream cheese, room temperature ($0.75)
- 2 tsp sugar ($0.04)
- 1 large egg, separated ($0.26)
Instructions
- To prepare the galette crust, combine the flour, sugar, and salt in a large bowl. Cut the cold butter into chunks and add it to the flour and salt. Use a pastry cutter or your hands to work the butter into the flour until the flour looks like damp sand with some pea-sized pieces of butter.
- Begin adding ice water, one tablespoon at a time, until a dough forms and no dry flour remains on the bottom of the bowl. Shape the dough into a flattened disc, wrap it in plastic, and refrigerate for one hour or until solid.
- While the dough is refrigerating, combine the blueberries, sugar, cornstarch, 1/2 tsp of zest and 1 Tbsp of juice from the lemon. Stir them together well and set the mixture aside.
- In a separate bowl, combine the room temperature cream cheese, sugar, egg yolk, and 1 tsp juice from the lemon until it forms a smooth mixture. Save the egg white to brush over the crust just before baking.
- Preheat the oven to 400ºF. Lightly flour a clean work surface. Take the dough out of the refrigerator and roll it into a 14-16 inch circle. The dough may seem a little stiff at first, but it will become more pliable as it warms. Make sure to keep your work surface dusted with flour as you roll to keep the dough from sticking.
- Line a large baking sheet with parchment. Transfer the rolled dough onto the parchment (you can either roll or fold the dough to transfer without ripping). Spread the cream cheese mixture over the center of the circle, leaving about 2-inches of bare dough around the outside edge. I like to leave a higher “lip” on the outer edge of the cream cheese to help hold in the berries and their juice.
- Stir the blueberries one last time and pour them over the cream cheese, including all of the juice from the bowl. Begin folding up the sides of the dough over the cream cheese and berries, leaving the center open.
- Whisk the reserved egg white with a fork, using a drop or two of water to make it more fluid, if needed. Brush the egg white over the surface of the galette dough.
- Bake the galette for 30 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown. Let the galette sit for 10 minutes before slicing into six pieces and serving.
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How to Make a Lemon Blueberry Galette – Step by Step Photos
Start by making the crust for the galette because it needs to refrigerate for about an hour. This is really just a basic pie dough recipe and you can feel free to use your favorite pie dough recipe. To begin, stir together 1.5 cups flour with 1 tsp sugar and a pinch of salt. Then add 8 Tbsp very cold butter, cut into small chunks (these are 1/2 Tbsp chunks).
Use a pastry cutter (affiliate link) or your hands to work the butter into the flour until it kind of looks like damp sand with some larger pea-sized pieces of butter. Those larger pieces of butter are what will create a nice delicate, flakey texture in the baked crust.
Begin adding ice water to the mixture, one tablespoon at a time, until it comes together and forms a dough with no dry flour left on the bottom of the bowl. Shape the dough into a flattened disc, wrap it in plastic, and refrigerate for one hour or until it is solid. Gotta keep that butter cold!
While the dough is refrigerating, combine 1/2 lb. blueberries (frozen or fresh), with 1 Tbsp sugar, 1 tsp cornstarch, about 1/2 tsp fresh lemon zest, and 1 Tbsp of fresh lemon juice (you’ll use more of the lemon juice in the cream cheese mixture). Stir those ingredients together and set them aside.
To make the cream cheese filling, combine 4 oz. room temperature cream cheese, one large egg yolk (save the whites to brush on the galette before baking), 2 tsp sugar, and 1 tsp of the fresh lemon juice.
Mix those together until smooth.
When the galette dough is fully chilled, it’s time to assemble. Preheat the oven to 400ºF. Lightly flour a clean work surface and roll the dough out to a 14-16 inch circle. Make sure to dust the work surface as you go to keep it from sticking. It will become more pliable as it’s rolled out. If it begins to crack around the edges, just use your fingers to pinch it back together. Place the rolled out dough on a parchment lined baking sheet. Spread the cream cheese mixture over the center, leaving about 2 inches of dough bare around the outside. I like to leave a higher “lip” of the cream cheese mixture around the outside to help hold in the berries and their juices.
Stir the blueberry mixture again and then pour it on top of the cream cheese. Make sure to add all the juices. They will run slightly, but that’s okay.
Begin to fold in the bare dough toward the center, leaving the middle open and uncovered.
Lighly whisk the reserved egg white, using a drop or two of water to help make it fluid if needed. Brush the egg whites over the surface of the dough.
Bake the galette for about 30 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown. The total cooking time will depend on how thinly the crust was rolled out, so just keep an eye on it. Let the galette sit for about 10 minutes before slicing and serving. You can garnish with any leftover lemon zest.
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What’s the best way to prep this for the morning? Could this be completely assembled, refrigerated, and baked first thing in the morning? Or should I just make the dough and fillings the night before then take them out of the refrigerator to assemble/bake in the morning? Thanks!
I would definitely wait to assemble until just before you bake so that nothing gets soggy. :)
Thanks for this recipe! I’m wondering how much in cups is 1/2 lb of blueberries?
I’m not sure, honestly. I suppose it would depend on the size of the berries. I used frozen berries that come in a one pound bag, so I just estimated half of the bag.
I made this last night with some pie crust I had leftover from a double crusted fruit pie I’d made earlier in the week. In light of that, I loved how fast and easy this was to make. The fillings go together so quickly and besides the blueberries everything was stuff I already had in the fridge! It was so good! I enjoyed it warm last night and then I maybe thought it was even better this morning after it had chilled. Thanks for the recipe!
Mine could have perhaps used more cream cheese filling, but was otherwise *great*! Easy crowd-pleaser.
My pie dough came out very crumbly. Is there something I can do to prevent this in the future? More water?
Yep, just add a touch more water. :)
Thanks, Beth, this was fabulous! I’d never heard of a galette, but this looked just wonderful – and it was! The crust was also better than the one hubby usually makes (he’s the crust maker), so thanks for that! And ooh, lime, there’s a thought.
This caught my eye and altho I am not a baker at all I had to have this….I will tell you right off this time and this time ONLY I used a pre made roll-out crust…making a crust as well as actual baking!!! Just too much for e to comprehend all the resting cooling and room temperatures in this recipe were enough to worry about……Then there was fresh or frozen berries ???
to the point it turned out soo very good…next time I will make this with the crust and whatever berries are around…. and making a double order there so easy….
I would add a little sugar on the crust egg wash too…but again it was wonderful with the boxed crust…..
Michigan Man
I was going to use store-bought crust too. Did you just use one pre-made crust and roll it out larger? Was one enough? Thanks!
This meal looks lovely. I know my family would love it. Thanks for sharing it.
We are getting tons of blueberries in our CSA boxes! Definitely making this :)
Made this tonight, super yummy! I ended up needing closer to 5 tablespoons of water to get the right dough consistency.
We picked 5 pounds of blueberries yesterday, so this was the perfect recipe. I didn’t have any lemons, so I used lime instead. I also mixed up the crust in my food processor. This was easy to make and tasted great! I’m looking forward to the leftovers.
I made this today and it was amazing! It took me a lot longer to bake than 30 min, but these things vary so much with pastry. I used frozen blueberries and doubled the lemon juice instead of using zest, but oh man, I wish I could eat the whole thing in one day.
Just picked under a quart of fresh blueberries from the bushes in my yard–this looks like the perfect way to use about half of them! The rest will go in a watermelon salad for today’s family picnic (watermelon, blueberries, feta cheese and mint)
Oh, my gosh. You’re speaking my language, Beth. I LOVE galettes and super excited to make this for dessert shortly!!! :-)
Yummm. I love lemon blueberry anything. This looks fantastic.
Just FYI I think you have a typo in the ingredients for the cream cheese filling. In the list of ingredients it says 2 tsp sugar, but in the step by step photos it says 2 Tbsp.
Thanks for catching that!! :)