Name: Cherry Clafoutis
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h 35 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: Sweet Cherries 1 ¼ pounds; Eggs 3 large; All-purpose flour ½ cup; Vanilla extract 1 tsp; Almond extract ⅛ tsp; Sugar ½ cup plus 3 tbsp; Milk 1 ⅓ cup lowfat; Butter 1 tbsp Softened

Cuisine:

French Recipes

Ingredients

1 ¼ pounds Sweet Cherries
3 large Eggs
at room temperature
½ cup All-purpose flour
1 tsp Vanilla extract
⅛ tsp Almond extract
½ cup plus 3 tbsp Sugar
1 ⅓ cup lowfat Milk
or whole
1 tbsp Softened Butter
for preparing the baking dish

Cherry Clafoutis

Another great and easy baking recipe to follow with these Cherry Clafoutis. A warm cherry custard oven baked cake that is sweet and fruity with a moist custard-like texture for the base. This cake is best made with fresh cherries layered over the top and bottom and a vanilla and almond flavor batter in the middle.

Serve it with hot custard and sherry sauce in the winter or dollops of ice cream on a summer’s afternoon! It’s really lovely.

To make Cherry Clafoutis, you will need the following ingredients:

So, how to make Cherry Clafoutis?

Steps to make Cherry Clafoutis

1	Preheat oven and prepare baking dish	10
Preheat the oven to 375ºF and grease a shallow 2 liter baking dish with butter.
2	Layer cherries	10
Remove the stems and pits from the cherries and arrange them in a single layer at the bottom of the baking dish.
3	Prepare batter	3
In a bowl, with an electric blender or beater, whisk the eggs, flour, vanilla extract, almond extract, ½ cup sugar and milk together, until smooth.
4	Pour batter into baking dish	5
Pour the batter over the cherries into the baking dish, evenly, and sprinkle 3 tablespoons of sugar and remaining cherries over the top.
5	Bake clafoutis	45
Bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes until the custard sets and a wooden toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
6	Serve	30
Serve warm or cold, as your prefer.

This Cherry Clafoutis recipe is a scrumptious flan recipe to use at Christmas time. It’s warm and filling and brings out all the festive feels. A cake that looks great and tastes even better, you won’t be disappointed! Another great choice, with easy step by step guides to follow. Send us your festive cake pictures and tag #cookmerecipes in your own pictures and posts on social media!

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