Plum Galette - from Everyday Living/Cooking ~

Everyone knows about that little magazine, Everyday Living I believe.  It's brought to us by Martha Stewart and her team.  Over the years, I have found some wonderful recipes in it.  This is one of them.  I always brush the top of my fruit pies/tarts/galettes with a few teaspoons of apricot preserves.  To me, it makes them look like they come from a pastry shop window....

This tart is easy to make, really.  Don't let the picture intimidate you. And so delicious too.  I have even cheated and used a store bought rolled pie crust, found in your grocer's refrigerator section.
Trust me, no one will notice....

Here it is ready for the oven:

Plum Galette

Ingredients

• • 2 1/2 cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled), plus more for rolling
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
  • 5 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup ice water
  • 1/4 cup whole, skin-on almonds, toasted
  • 5 to 6 plums, halved, pitted, and sliced 1/4 inch thick (keep slices together)
  • 1 to 2 tablespoons heavy cream

Directions

1. In a food processor, combine 2 1/2 cups flour, butter, 1 teaspoon sugar, and salt; pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal. Sprinkle with 1/4 cup ice water. Pulse until dough is crumbly but holds together when squeezed (if necessary, add up to 1/4 cup remaining ice water, 1 tablespoon at a time). Dont overmix. Remove dough from processor and shape into a disk; wrap in plastic and refrigerate 1 hour. Meanwhile, wipe bowl of food processor clean and add almonds, 3 tablespoons sugar, and 2 tablespoons flour; pulse until ground to a coarse meal.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. On a floured surface, roll out dough to 1/4-inch thickness. Transfer to a parchment-lined baking sheet; sprinkle almond mixture over dough. With a spatula, transfer plums to dough; press lightly to fan out, leaving a 2-inch border. Fold edge of dough over fruit. Refrigerate 20 minutes. Brush crust with cream; sprinkle galette with 2 tablespoons sugar. Bake until crust is golden and underside is cooked through, about 70 minutes.

Just out of the oven and I heated a little apricot preserves with 1 teaspoon of water and brushed it on top while the galette was still warm.

Be sure to let this galette cool a bit and serve with a little scoop of vanilla ice cream too ~