Cherry and Almond Cream Crostata

Cherry and Almond Cream Crostata A rustic crostata (or galette) featuring cherries and almond cream.

Prep Time: 20 minutes Cook Time: 25 minutes Refrigerated Time: 1 hour Total Time: 45 minutes Calories: 2884 kcal

Ingredients

Crostata Pastry

• 1 cup flour
• 2 TBS sugar
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 stick unsalted butter very cold, diced
• 2 TBS ice cold water

Almond Cream

• 1 cup slivered almonds, mine were not blanched, so you can see bits of the brown skin. Use blanched if you would prefer to avoid the brown bits
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1 tsp Amaretto or almond extract
• 2 TB butter
• 1 egg

Cherry Filling

• 1 pound cherries, pitted fresh or frozen. If frozen, then thaw and drain
• 1 TBS sugar
• 2 TBS corn starch

Instructions

Pastry

• Place flour, sugar and salt in the bowl of your food processor.
• Pulse to combine
• Add butter all at one and pulse 10-15 times until butter is pea-sized
• With motor running, add ice water all at one time through the feed tube.
• Pulse until dought just starts to come together
• Remove from food processor and pour onto wax paper. *Form dough into a round and wrap in wax paper and refrigerate for at least one hour.

Almond Cream

• Add almonds and powdered sugar to bowl of food processor and process until the consistency of cornmeal.
• Add butter, vanilla and Amaretto or almond extract and process until a thick pudding consistency.
• Add egg and process until creamy.
• Set aside

Cherries

• Combine fresh or drained, frozen cherries with cornstarch and sugar and set aside

To Assemble Crostata

• Preheat oven to 450'
• Put chilled crostata dough on a piece of parchment paper on your baking sheet.
• Roll out dough until approximately 11" in diameter
• Pour almond cream into the middle of the dough, leaving about 2" of dough around the perimeter.
• Add cherrries on top of almond cream
• Pull up the sides of the crostata
• Bake at 450 for 20-25 until crust is golden brown
• Let cool and serve warm or at room temperature.

Pics and printable recipe available at: Nourish and Nestle

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