Galette des rois recipe

How to make the best French Galette des Rois recipe (king cake), with a crispy and buttery homemade puff pastry filled with an almond cream.

This is one of my favorite culinary French tradition: the Galette des Rois or French Kings Cake! Not only is it a very jovial tradition, a good reason to get together with family or friends, but the traditional Galette des Rois is also a terribly good cake!

Learn how to make galette des rois the delicious French epiphany king's cake, made with flaky pastry and almond paste.

The holiday season is not over for French people with the tradition of Galette des Rois filled with this classic almond cream. Think of almond croissants with puff pastry... #galettedesrois #french

A delicious treat for Three Kings' Day: a galette des rois filled with frangipane, a cream made with almonds. Click for the recipe #enrilemoine #byenrilemoine #galettedesroisrecipe #kingscakerecipe via @enrilemoine

Let's make easy Galette des Rois! The Galette des Rois is the most popular pastry in France for the celebration of Epiphany on January 6th. Bakeries often start stocking their shelves with the delicious 'King's Cake' in late December in anticipation of the celebrations. It's beloved by many people, not the least because the pastry hides a little treasure and the finder will become the king or queen of the night (yes, most French bakeries will include a golden paper crown)!

To mark the occasion, Le Cordon Bleu Master Chefs have created this Three Kings' Cake which follows the traditional version served in Northern France. A bean, or “fève” is hidden in the cake and the person whose portion contains the bean is crowned king or queen for the festivities. The cake differs from one region to the next, with different countries taking slightly different approaches, but Parisians know it as a flat, round puff pastry cake filled with a thin layer of almond cream.

Don’t be intimidated by its glamorous looks. Galette des rois—flaky puff pastry encasing rich almond cream—is surprisingly easy to prepare.

The galette des rois, celebrating Epiphany, the day the Three Kings (les rois) visited the infant Jesus, is baked throughout January in France. Composed of two circles of puff pastry sandwiching a frangipani filling, each comes with a crown and always has a trinket, called a fève, or bean, baked into it. It’s an invitation to gather, as much party game as pastry – if your slice has the fève, you get the crown and the right to be king or queen for the day. Happily, the galette can be made to…

How to make the best French Galette des Rois recipe (king cake), with a crispy and buttery homemade puff pastry filled with an almond cream.