Today’s recipe is possibly the only one I can think of that requires an item of clothing or an accessory to accompany it. France’s Galette des Rois is traditionally served on January 6 for the Feast of the Epiphany marking the end of twelve days of Christmas.
It comprises two puff pastry layers with a filling of frangipane topped with a shiny sugar glaze. Traditionally a coin or china trinket is hidden in the Galette and whoever wears it is king for a day wearing the gold paper crown. In France you can buy these crowns but I had to make my own out of left over wrapping paper.
The galette is very very easy to make although I had a little trouble with the glaze. Possibly I will be spending some of my Christmas Amazon credit from my father on a cook’s blow torch. Jamie had warned that the icing sugar glaze had to be watched like a hawk lest it suddenly burn… after the prescribed five minutes I kept testing mine every 60 seconds but by the time areas were on the cusp of smoking, there were still some patches of un-caramelized icing sugar.
A quick carefully directed blast would have sorted it all out.
Getting the crown to stay on Ted’s head took a while. We had lots of shots like this one before I managed to catch him keeping still long enough to show him with it on his head.
I’m still enjoying my blog break so there’s no printed recipe today.
I hope everyone is enjoying the new year… I am reading even if I’m not posting so much this month. Hopefully soon I will be able to unveil my new Recipe Index. Wishing you all the best of luck with your new year projects and I hope to see you all here again soon.
Congratulations on all your achievements!
Look at that layer of frangipane!! What a wonderful recipe for The Three Kings – a lovely way to mark the feast by having a feast!!
Ren x
The frangipane was indeed the best bit – I might see what other uses I can find for it.
Damn I didn’t win anything! Love the paper crown on Ted. Very stylish!
Ah better luck next time. Ted liked playing with the crown but got most enjoyment out of it falling off his head repeatedly.
So well deserved, congratulations, you are the best….but I don’t see any sign of “la feve” usually hidden in the galette
x
Damn, you’ve rumbled me. My husband has a total phobia about bits in food and the notion of a ceramic trinket didn’t go down well at all. Better in our house to decide in advance who the king is and give him his crown anyway…
A very well deserved two first places!
Thank you! Of course!
Congratulations to you! I really do love your blog – very inspiring and enjoy every word. Keep up the good work.
Thanks very much, that’s really lovely to hear.