SEMI-HOMEMADE BLUEBERRY GALETTE SEMI-HOMEMADE BLUEBERRY GALETTE

BY NELLIE PALMER

Ingredients

 1 can Pillsbury Crescent Roll dough  1 can blueberry pie filling

1 pint fresh blueberries  4 oz cream cheese

2 tbsp sugar

1/4 cup melted butter

Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Roll the crescent roll dough into one sheet on the cookie sheet.  Pinch together where separated  Wash and dry blueberries.  Mix half the can of blueberry pie filling with fresh blueberries. Fold to mix, to keep from smashing blueberries. Add pie filling until evenly incorporated. You may not need the entire can.

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Brush melted butter on dough. (Leave some butter for edges)  Cut cream cheese into small cubes. Spread around the dough.  Spoon blueberry mixture onto dough, leaving a two inch edge around the dough.

Fold the edges of the dough inward one inch and pinch down along edge to form a crust.  Brush the edges with remaining butter. Bake in preheated oven at 375° until golden brown and bubbly.

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