The Hungry Housewife &#187; Pastry

Peach Cherry Galette

The Hungry Housewife — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:58:05 +0000

Ohhhhhhh, lord help me now.

Do you want an AMAZING and easy dessert? One that doesn’t have to look perfect? Here you have it.

But hurry up before peach season is over.

The sweet folks at the Georgia Peach Council, courtesy of Lane and Pearson Farms sent me the MOST DELICIOUS peaches I have ever had. I buy peaches all the time at the grocery store, but these were a million times better. Maybe the ones I get at the store aren’t Georgia Peaches. Regardless, they were the best peaches I have ever had….juicy and sweet..just perfect.

I’ve had bunches of galettes in my day, but I knew I wanted to use my fresh Georgia Peaches. I also wanted to add some tartness..so I threw some cherries in too.

Can I get an AMEN?!?!?!?

Oh and my crust…forgettaboutit. Full of flavor because of the butter and ultra flaky because of the shortening. I think it’s my best yet…defiantly a keeper!

You can take the super easy route and use a pre-made pie crust, but I advise against it..homemade crust is soooooooooooOOOOOOOOOO much better. However it does add more time to the process. So I suppose if you were in a rush, you could take the short cut.
The trick to homemade crust is to make sure some of the butter chunks are still intact. The butter chunks = flaky goodness. See the butter in the in the photo below? That’s how you want your rolled out crust to look like.

I used vanilla sugar in my filling. Click here to learn how to make it. If you don’t have any on hand, you can use just regular sugar.

5.0 from 1 reviews

Peach Cherry Galette

Author: Leslie Green – The Hungry Housewife

Recipe type: Dessert

Prep time: 20 mins

Cook time: 45 mins

Total time: 1 hour 5 mins

Serves: 8

Peach Cherry Galette..a beautiful rustic tart filled with fresh fruit.

Ingredients

Crust

2½ cups all purpose flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon table salt
14 tablespoons UNSALTED cold butter, cut into cubes
4 tablespoons Crisco or all-vegetable shortening, cold
5 tablespoons ice-cold water

Wet Filling

4 large Peaches (4 cups), un-peeled and sliced into 8ths
20 Cherries, pitted and sliced in half
1 tablespoon fresh Lemon Juice

Dry Filling

½ cup vanilla sugar
½ teaspoon Cinnamon
3 tablespoons Corn Starch

Egg Wash

1 egg
1 teaspoon water
½ tablespoon Demerara Sugar

Instructions

Place a large cookie sheet in the oven and pre-heat to 400.(leave the cookie sheet in the oven)

Crust

Place flour,salt and sugar into a food processor fitted with a metal blade and pulse a few times until mixed.
Add all of the butter and pulse 5 or six more times.
Add shortening. Pulse until the mixture has pea sized butter and shortening balls in the dough.
Place the mixture into a bowl.
Sprinkle the water over the dough and using a spatula, mix the dough until it comes together.
Form the dough into a disc and place on floured plastic wrap.
Wrap tightly.
Place in the refrigerator for 1 hour to overnight.

Filling

In a medium bowl, mix together vanilla sugar, cinnamon and corn starch.
In a large bowl, mix together the peaches, cherries and lemon juice.
Sprinkle the sugar/corn starch mixture over the peaches/cherries and stir until all incorporated.

Assembly

Place the dough onto a floured piece of parchment paper.
Roll the dough into a 15″ circle (approximate size).
Place the peach mixture into the middle of the dough circle, leaving a 2″ rim of dough.
Fold the dough up over the sides of the peaches.
Brush the top of the dough with the egg wash and sprinkle with the Demerara sugar.
Keep the galette on the parchment paper and slide it onto the cookie sheet that is preheated in the oven.
Bake for 45 minutes

Notes

*If you only have salted butter, decrease the salt amount in the crust to ½ teaspoon. *You can use regular sugar instead of vanilla sugar in the filling. *Feel free to a pre-made pie crust. *If you don’t have a food processor, you can cut the butter and shortening into the flour mixture with two forks.

Blueberry Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls & Giveaway

The Hungry Housewife — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:02:43 +0000

Are you getting sick of seeing all of my Crescent Creations? We had the Crescent Cinnamon Rolls and then the Cheesy Crescent Rolls and now these Scrumdiddlyumptious Blueberry Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls.

I can tell you one thing..I am not sick of creating them OR eating them!

Ok, before I get into these, I busted out laughing out loud when I was uploading these photos. It looks like I created some sort of “crescent roll monster” with the 2 blueberries on the top.
Tell me you don’t see it??????

I mean look…they totally look like twins

The Geico Money thingy

My once thought to be Beautiful photo…sigh

Anyway, now that I totally ruined the photo for myself, lets talk about amazing.

Yeah, these are delightful. Easy too. They would be perfect on your Easter Brunch Table.

The inside is warm and creamy with sweet blueberries and the icing had a slight lemon flavor that goes perfect with the fruit.

5.0 from 8 reviews

Blueberry Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls

Author: Leslie Green – The Hungry Housewife

Recipe type: appetizer,breakfast

Prep time: 5 mins

Cook time: 12 mins

Total time: 17 mins

Serves: 4

Ingredients

Rolls

1 tube (8 ct) Crescent Rolls
⅓ cup Cream Cheese, room temperature
1 tablespoon Brown Sugar
¼ teaspoon McCormick Pure Vanilla Extract
⅓ cup Blueberries, roughly chopped

Icing

1 tablespoon Butter, softened
3 tablespoons Cream Cheese, room temperature
1½ tablespoons Powdered Sugar
¼ teaspoon McCormick Pure Vanilla Extract
2 drops McCormick Pure Lemon Extract
Demerara Sugar (optional)

Instructions

Pre heat the oven to 350.

Rolls

In a small bowl, mix together the cream cheese,brown sugar and vanilla extract until blended.
Unroll and separate the crescent rolls onto un un greased cookie sheet.
Evenly distribute the cream cheese mixture over the crescent rolls and spread over the entire tops of the triangles.
Evenly sprinkle the blueberries over the crescent rolls with cream cheese.
Roll up.
Place tip side down on the cookie sheet.
Bake for 12-15 minutes or until lightly browned.

Icing

In a small bowl, mix together the butter, cream cheese,powdered sugar,vanilla extract and lemon extract until smooth.
Remove the rolls from the oven and allow to cool for a few minutes.
Spread the icing over the tops of the crescent rolls and top with a sprinkle of demerara sugar if desired

Notes

Demerara sugar is a large grained slightly yellowish brown sugar that can be found in speciality stores or in the speciality sugar section of your grocer.

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Fried Cream Cheese and Guava Hand Pies

The Hungry Housewife — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:53:20 +0000

I am sooooo sorry for keeping this recipe from you for so long.
It’s almost two years old. I developed the recipe, took the photo and made the video back in 2009 for a little cream cheese contest I entered.
And I forgot about it. SHAME.ON.ME

It’s ok to slap me. I deserve it.

These are so easy and so quick to make. Like seriously easy and quick….watch the video, you will see just how simple they are.

Onto the yum-a-licious recipe.

5.0 from 1 reviews

Fried Cream Cheese and Guava Hand Pies

Author: Leslie Green – The Hungry Housewife

Recipe type: Dessert

Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 1 min

Total time: 11 mins

Serves: 8

Fried hand pies made with refrigerated biscuit dough, filled with sweetened cream cheese and guava preserves.

Ingredients

1 Tube refrigerated Flakey Biscuits, 8 count
8 ounce(s) of Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Softened
¼ cup(s) of Sugar
1 Small Jar Guava Preserves
1 Egg White, beaten
Peanut Oil for frying
Powdered Sugar for Garnish

Instructions

In a medium pot, heat about 4 inches of peanut or canola oil to 350.
In a small bowl, mix cream cheese and sugar together until smooth.
Flour your work surface.
Roll each biscuit into a 8 inch circle.
Place 2 table spoons of the cream cheese mixture onto the middle of the biscuit circle.
Place 1½ tablespoons of the guava preserves in the biscuit circle.
Brush some egg white onto the outer edge of the biscuit.
Fold the biscuit over.
Seal it with or fork or firmly pinch the edges together.
Fry in batches of 2 for about 45 seconds to 1 minute or until golden brown.
Drain them on paper towels.
Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Enjoy

Maple Pumpkin Pie

The Hungry Housewife — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:23:03 +0000

What is your favorite holiday pie? Mine by far is pumpkin and cherry. I can’t have Thanksgiving without it. This maple pumpkin pie is my all time favorite. The maple and cinnamon gives it just that little something extra.
Pumpkin pie is very easy to make. You can take a short cut and use a pre-made pie crust. I won’t tell a soul.

5.0 from 1 reviews

Maple Pumpkin Pie

Author: Leslie Green – The Hungry Housewife

Recipe type: Dessert

Prep time: 20 mins

Cook time: 70 mins

Total time: 1 hour 30 mins

Serves: 8

Maple pumpkin Pie..they perfect holiday pie.

Ingredients

PIE CRUST

1¼ cups unbleached all-purpose flour (6¼ ounces)
½ teaspoon table salt
1tablespoon sugar
6 tablespoons cold unsalted butter (3/4 stick), cut into ¼-inch slices
¼ cup chilled solid vegetable shortening , cut into 2 pieces
2 tablespoons vodka , cold
2 tablespoons cold water

PIE FILLING

1 15 oz. can pumpkin (NOT pumpkin pie filling)
½ cup sugar
¼ cup pure maple syrup
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon salt
3 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup half and half or whole milk
1 tablespoon maple extract

Instructions

PIE CRUST

Mix the flour, salt, and sugar together in a medium bowl.
With a pastry fork,two forks or your fingers, mix the butter and shortening into the flour mixture (dough will resemble cottage cheese curds with some very small pieces of butter remaining, but there should be no uncoated flour).
Empty mixture into medium bowl.
Sprinkle vodka and water over mixture. With rubber spatula, use folding motion to mix, pressing down on dough until dough is slightly tacky and sticks together.
Flatten dough into 4-inch disk.
Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 45 minutes or up to 2 days.
Preheat the oven to 375.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out the pie dough large enough to fit a 8″ or 9″ pie pan.
Place it in your pie pan and put it in the freezer for about 15 minutes.
Meanwhile in a large bowl, mix together the pumpkin, sugar, maple syrup, cinnamon and salt.
Add the eggs and beat with a fork until mixed thoroughly.
Slowly add the half and half and maple extract, stir until combined.
Remove pie crust from the freezer and fill the crust with the pumpkin filling.
Cover the edges of of the pie crust with foil or a pie crust sheild.
Bake for 35 minutes, then remove the foil and bake for an additional 35 minutes or until the center is set or when a tooth pick or a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
Cool on a wire rack.

Notes

The maple extract is optional. It might be hard to find in your area. -Pie filling inspired by Better Homes and Gardens -Pie crust from Cooks Illustrated