Purée almond paste, granulated sugar, butter, and a pinch of salt in a food processor until smooth.
Ingredients you will need
Granulated Sugar
Almond Paste
Butter
Salt
Equipment you will use
Food Processor
3
Add 1 egg, vanilla, and almond extract and purée until incorporated.
Ingredients you will need
Almond Extract
Vanilla
Egg
4
Add flour and pulse until incorporated.
Ingredients you will need
All Purpose Flour
5
Roll out 1 puff pastry sheet into an 11 1/2-inch square on a lightly floured surface with a floured rolling pin, then brush off excess flour from both sides.
Ingredients you will need
Puff Pastry Sheets
All Purpose Flour
Roll
Equipment you will use
Rolling Pin
6
Cut out an 11-inch round by tracing around an inverted plate with tip of a paring knife.
Equipment you will use
Knife
7
Transfer round to a buttered large baking sheet (not dark metal, or pastry may brown too much), discarding trimmings, and chill. Repeat procedure with second pastry sheet, leaving round on floured surface.
Equipment you will use
Baking Sheet
8
Beat remaining egg with a fork and brush some over top of second round. Score round decoratively all over using tip of knife, then make several small slits all the way through pastry, at about 2-inch intervals, to create steam vents.
Ingredients you will need
Egg
Equipment you will use
Knife
9
Brush some of egg in a 1-inch-wide border around edge of chilled pastry round (on baking sheet). Mound almond cream in center of chilled round, spreading slightly, and bury bean in cream. Immediately cover with decorated round and press edges together lightly. Holding a small spoon with side at an angle, press around edge to seal galette decoratively.
Ingredients you will need
Almonds
Cream
Egg
Equipment you will use
Baking Sheet
10
Bake galette in lower third of oven until puffed and pale golden, 13 to 15 minutes. Dust galette with confectioners sugar and bake in upper third of oven until edge is deep golden brown and shiny, 12 to 15 minutes more.
Ingredients you will need
Powdered Sugar
Equipment you will use
Oven
11
Transfer to a rack to cool slightly, 5 to 10 minutes.