Apple-Banana no-crust Pie

Main Ingredients

Ingredients (Serve 4):

• 3 Cooking organic Apples
• 2 Organic ripe Bananas
• 3 Tablespoons of Organic No-salt Butter
• 1 free range Egg
• 1 teaspoon of Ginger Powder
• 1/2 cup of Organic Powered Sugar
• 2 tablespoons of organic stone-ground Whole Flour
• 1/2 cup of organic Half & Half
• 1 teaspoon of pure Vanilla Extract
• 1 tablespoon of Cognac
• Natural Parchment Paper

How to do it:

• Cut the Parchment paper to fit the bottom of a baking pan and butter lightly the Parchment with a Butter Stick.

• In the bowl # 1 mix the melted Butter, Sugar, Half & Half, Egg, Vanilla and Cognac.

• Add slowly the Flour and mix well.

Bowl # 1

• Cut the Bananas in small pieces and crush them in bowl # 2 with a fork until you get a paste.

Bowl # 2

• Peel, remove the seed and cut the Apples in small pieces and mix in the the bowl #2 with the banana.

Bowl # 2

• Pour content of bowl # 1 into bowl # 2 and mix very well.

Pour bowl # 1 into bowl # 2

• Pour the content of bowl # 2 in the baking pan. Arrange the mixture with more of it at the center and less at the edge of the pan.

• Bake in the oven at 250 for 2 hours.
• Before serving dust with Powered Sugar and put in the oven at 450 for 5 minutes, it will caramelize the top.

• Serve and enjoy!

A portion of the Apple-Banana no-crust Pie on a serving plate

GALETTE DES ROIS (KING CAKE)

Ingredients:

2 Layers of Frangipane

• Puff Pastry from the frozen section of the store
• Frangipane from the store (Almond Paste)
• 1 Tablespoon Butter
• Parchment Paper
• 1 Egg (free range and cage free)
• Powdered Sugar
• 1 very clean Coin (boil it 5 minutes)

The main Ingredients

How to make it:

1. Put a sheet of Parchment Paper cut as a circle in a round baking dish
2. Butter the Parchment Paper
3. Unfold the thawed Puff Pastry and roll it in 3 sheets. 
4. Cut into 3 circles using a pie pan as a template
5. Lay the first circle of Puff Pastry on the buttered Parchment sheet and brush it with melted butter
6. Spread Frangipane to cover the Puff Pastry
7. Place a clean coin in the Frangipane
8. Lay the second circle of Puff Pastry on top of the Frangipane and brush it with melted butter
9. Spread Frangipane to cover the Puff Pastry
10. Lay the third circle of Puff Pastry on top of the Frangipane
11. Seal the edges of the Galette very tight
12. Decorate the top
13. Beat the egg and brush the top and the edge with the Egg
14. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes in the oven pre-heated at 375.  Do not open the oven door during baking
15. When cold, dust the top with Powdered Sugar

The person getting the Coin is the King/Queen.

The numbering of the Photos below corresponds to the steps above:

# 1 Parchment Sheet

# 3 Roll the Puff Pastry

# 4 Cut 3 circles of Puff Pastry

# 6 & 7 Lay the Frangipane & the Coin

# 8 Lay the second circle of Puff Pastry

# 8 Brush with melted Butter

# 12 Decorate the Top

# 13 Beat the Egg and Seal the Edge

# 14 Baking

# 15 Dust with Powdered Sugar

Galette des Rois with the Crown

One slice has been cut
You can see the 2 layers of Frangipane
We had a QUEEN

The Wise Men (Kings)
are looking at the King Cake slice

With the left over ingredients we made Almond Croissants:

Triangle of Puff Pastry with Frangipane

Almond Croissants