We’re talking personal pies. Flat little freeform pies that are full of charm. They’re casual and fancy at the same time. And you can make them with all kinds of fillings. But today we are all about apples bathed in butterscotch. I’m not complaining.
The recipe for these is from my friends, Todd and Diane’s new cookbook, Bountiful. The recipes inside are inspired by the things they grow in their garden. It’s an absolutely beautiful book, but that’s a given with these two. They are amazing photographers and videographers. You may remember that I worked with them last year on a fun little holiday video. But, If you aren’t familiar, check out the White on Rice Couple Blog for more of their beautiful recipes.
Okay … Galettes! Let’s go.
Butterscotch sauce ingredients: sugars, butter, heavy cream, vanilla, scotch and salt. P.S. Yay for heavy cream and brown sugar.
Because it all comes together to make glorious butterscotch sauce.
And you can kick it up a notch with a little scotch. Like my airline size bottle? If I bought anything bigger, it would most likely just go to waste.
Filling ingredients: Apples, apples, apples and a little sugar, flour and lemon juice.
Peel, core and slice those babies so they are nice and thin.
Then we’re on to the pie crust.
Prepare the dough and divide into four small discs.
Roll it out into an 8 inch circle. Use a cake pan pressed in the dough as a guide if you want a more perfects. Then just cut off the excess.
Fill the center with apples and spoon on the sauce.
Then just fold the edges, creasing as you go and bake until golden brown.
And dress them up a little bit if you want, too. I used these cute little leaf pie crust cutters I found at Williams-Sonoma.
[recipe]
Source: © 2013 Bountiful by Todd Porter and Diane Cu
Butterscotch Apple Mini Galettes
Ingredients
BUTTERSCOTCH
FILLING
CRUST
Instructions
In a medium saucepan, melt butter over medium-low heat. Before butter is completely melted, stir in both the sugars. Gently cook stirring occasionally for about five minutes, until the sugars transform from grainy to smooth.
In a bowl, combine the sugar, flour and lemon juice. Add the sliced apples and toss together until mixed evenly. Set aside. Preheat oven to 425 degrees and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
In a medium bowl, use your fingertips to pinch together the flour, butter, salt and sugar until the mixture is crumbly. Make sure any large pieces of butter are flattened or broken apart.Notes
Now normally I would lather something like this up with ice cream because you know fruit isn’t my first choice in a dessert, but after the first bite – oh my…so good – it didn’t need anything else.
Hope you enjoy and don’t forget to check out Bountiful. It’s beautiful.
these look SO delicious! Diane and Todd’s pictures always look incredible!
Made these last night for Sunday dinner, and they were wonderful! I left my dough in the fridge for about 4 hours and it was easy enough to roll out after all the chilling. I found that I had an abundance of caramel left over…sweet desserts all week, yay!
I made them yesterday….
Amazing!!!
I had a problem closing the galettes… but they were amazing…
Thank you
You can check out what I made…
http://gabilinares.blogspot.com.es/2013/11/mini-tartas-de-manzana-y-toffee.html
Mmmm, apples and butterscotch!!!
hi!
the photos look great and so we tried to do the recipe today…
but it didn’t work out at all! i mean, it still tasted very good but it looked awful, the foldings were exactly like in the photo but when it was in the oven it unfolded and all the butterscoth dripped away, and so the butterscotch was burned by the time the dough was baked
the ingredients all mix togehter so well, so the taste was still nice, but it looked really REALLY bad… could you please help me with some tip of why this happened?
im brazilian, sorry for any english mistakes…
hi, i just made these- they have yet to go into the oven though. Is the butterscotch sauce suppose to get toffee hard as it cools? how did you pour it once cooled?
Also I dont use alcohol so is there any alternative?
Thank you for the recipe though- it was very easy to make!
Galettes are simply the best! You don’t have to share them- they’re all your own, and they’re delicious! These look lovely! I’ll be sure to pick up Bountiful too.
Hand-crafted candy bars sounds amazing! I have a friend would love that too its such a great gift for the holidays, what an awesome idea!
I love to have hand crafted candy bars!!!!
Wow! Looks so delicious! Going to try to make this tonight. Thanks for the wonderful pics and clear instructions!
So happy for the idea – little sizes great for keeping little waistlines, yay! Thank you!!!
Perfect for a not-quite-midnight snack! I think I overcooked the butterscotch, as its more like squishy toffee than sauce. It still tastes awesome though. :)
OMG this looks so nice. Butterscotch is one of my favorite sweet taste ever. The pastry looks cooked to perfection. I am drooling haha x
Adorable! What a great little treat that you can eat all by yourself! I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of Diane & Todd’s book!
WOWOWOW!
:)
You had me at butterscotch.
Those look delicious and the cookbook looks great. I love fruit deserts! Apple and butterscotch… YuM!
Apple…crust…butterscotch…another delicious way!!!
Oh my gosh, yes please! I feel like people forget about butterscotch sometimes and I’m so glad you used it. These galettes are too cute! Love White on Rice Couple too. :)
Apples and butterscotch … yes please! The leaves look so sweet on the side, too ;)
These are so cute! Headed to Amazon to check out the new book :)
Such a cute dessert! I love the little leaves on the crust!
These are so cute!! Lovely!
OMG, these look SO delicious! Diane and Todd’s pictures always look incredible! I didn’t know they had a new book out! To Amazon!!
Oh. My. Yum!
These look so yummy. I have fallen in love with galettes, sweet or savory. They are so easy to make and almost a “can’t fail”. Thanks for sharing this recipe. I will have to check out “Bountiful ” for sure.
So delicious and simple. Thanks
What kind of apples did you use? We love the flavor of Fugis but not sure they’d be good for baking. Thanks Angie! As always, your photos are mouth watering!
Oh my, those look divine :D I love little pies :D
Just the words butterscotch and apple drew me in. This looks like something I need to make!
Oh dear, that looks delicious! I’ll make sure to keep an eye out for it.. Hopefully they’ll sell it here in Sweden as well!
How on earth do you measure butter in cups??
I would give anything for a kitchen, I’ve been washing dishes out of an old wringer washer using it as a sink. If that isn’t nerves of steel then I don’t know what is. I’ve been doing this for over 2 years now, I’m old, disabled and handicapped, nerves of steel..ha. Let me see one of your other readers try to live this way. I think I’ve got them all beat.
These look so yummy
I would give anything for a kitchen, I’ve been washing dishes out of an old wringer washer using it as a sink. If that isn’t nerves of steel then I don’t know what is. I’ve been doing this for over 2 years now, I’m old, disabled and handicapped, nerves of steel..ha. Let me see one of your other readers try to live this way. I think I’ve got them all beat.