Dauphinoise Pithivier
A gallete des rois alternative
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Hello and Happy New Year! Today we’re diving into a fun, cheesy, and utterly delicious bake – a dauphinoise pithivier (puff pastry pie). My original plan was to ease gently into the new year with some simple bakes, but, let’s be honest, simplicity has never really been my style. So instead, we’re kicking off the year with a bang – starting as we mean to go on.
If, like me, you’re immersed in the baking corner of the internet, you’ll have noticed a flurry of galette des rois or king cakes appearing at this time of year. Traditionally served on Twelfth Night to celebrate Epiphany, galette des rois are popular across France. In Northern France, they’re typically made with puff pastry filled and with frangipane and hide a fève (a small ceramic charm) inside, said to bring good luck to the person who finds it.
Today we’re not sticking with tradition, I wasn’t quite ready to dive back into sweet baking after a pretty full on December - what I was ready for was to eat a big pile of potatoes. After Christmas I found myself with a surplus of cheese, I’m not really sure how this happened as I can assure you that I ate close to my own bodyweight in cheese but nevertheless, I had cheese, and it needed to be eaten. And what better way to eat cheese than in dauphinoise potatoes and even better if we enclose the dauphinoise in a blanket of puff pastry.