BLUEBERRY GALETTE WITH CHOCOLATE PEANUT ICE CREAM
Ingredients
- 300ml/10½fl oz full-fat milk
- 200ml/7fl oz double cream
- 75g/2½oz caster sugar
- 6 free-range egg yolks
- 3 chocolate and peanut bars
- chopped
- 200g/7oz plain flour
- plus extra for dusting
- 150g/5½oz unsalted butter
- chopped
- 75g/2½oz caster sugar
- 2 free-range egg yolks
- 400g/14oz fresh blueberries
- 1 vanilla pod
- split in half lengthways
- seeds scraped out
- 2 tbsp cornflour
- 1 lemon
- juice only
- 2 tbsp demerara sugar
Directions
- For the instant chocolate ice cream
- heat the milk and cream in a saucepan until just simmering. Whisk the caster sugar and egg yolks together in a bowl until pale and fluffy.
- Slowly pour the warm cream mixture onto the egg mixture
- whisking continuously.
- Return the mixture to the saucepan and continue to cook over a low heat
- whisking continuously
- until it thickens enough to coat the back of a spoon. Add the chopped chocolate bars and stir until melted. Set aside to cool
- then chill in the fridge.
- Transfer the chilled custard to an ice cream machine and churn until frozen
- then freeze until needed in an airtight container.
- For the galettes
- in a bowl
- rub together the flour
- butter and 25g/1oz of the caster sugar using your fingertips
- until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
- Add one of the egg yolks and stir the mixture until it comes together as a dough. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and knead until smooth. Flatten the dough to a 2cm/1in-thick disc
- then wrap in cling film and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile
- in a bowl
- stir together the blueberries
- vanilla seeds
- cornflour
- lemon juice and the remaining caster sugar. Set aside.
- Roll the chilled pastry out on a lightly floured surface to a thickness of 5mm/¼in. Cut eight 12cm/5in discs from the pastry and place them onto a baking tray lined with baking parchment. Pinch or fold the edges of each pastry disc to create pastry cases
- then brush all over with the remaining egg yolk. Spoon in the blueberries and sprinkle over the demerara sugar. Chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6.
- Bake the galettes in the oven for 20-25 minutes
- or until crisp and golden-brown.
- To serve
- place the warm galettes on serving plates and place a scoop of ice cream on top of each.

