galette

as in cake
a small usually rounded mass of minced food that has been fried a golden-brown galette of lightly buttered and sautéed potato slices

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Recent Examples of galette The classic French version, the galette des rois, is a puff pastry cake usually filled with frangipane—a sweet cream made from almonds, butter, sugar, and eggs. Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025 Take your pick of savory buckwheat crêpes and galettes topped with comté cheese and ham or go for something sweet like salted caramel and Chantilly cream. Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2025 Other treats, like savory quiches, muffins, and galettes, are more than worthy, too. Meira Gebel, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025 Add a smidge to your favorite nut or snack mix, fall fruit galette, banana bread, sugar cookie dough, cream cheese frosting, carrot loaf cake, or granola. Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 13 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for galette

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“Galette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/galette. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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