Classic clafoutis with cherry

Cherry Clafoutis is a French dessert similar to a pie, casserole and egg mousse. It is dense and tender, like baked cream. The berries add sourness to it.

• Recipe author: Artyom Gorbunov
• After preparation, you will receive 5 servings
• Total recipe preparation time: 1825 minutes

Ingredients

• Cherries 500 g
• Sugar 100 g + 1 tbsp. the spoon
• Butter 50 g + for lubrication
• Eggs 4 pieces
• Vanilla sugar 10 g
• Milk 300 ml
• Flour 120 g
• Powdered sugar to taste
• Almond extract ¹⁄₂ tsp spoons

Cooking method

• Remove pits from cherries. This can be done using a special device, a wooden stick or a pastry nozzle.

  At home, in France, clafoutis is made from pitted cherries: they give the dish an almond flavor. But eating such a cake is not very convenient and safe. Therefore, if you want to get closer to an authentic recipe, add ½ teaspoon of almond extract to the dough.

• Sprinkle the berries with a tablespoon of sugar. Wait for the juice to come out and drain.

• Lubricate a ceramic or glass dish with butter and put the cherries in an even layer.

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• Prepare the dough separately. Whisk the eggs with the remaining 100 g of sugar, vanilla sugar and 100 ml of milk.

• Then add flour in portions and mix thoroughly each time.

• Finally add 50g melted butter and remaining milk and beat with a mixer on low speed. The dough should turn out to be liquid, like for pancakes.

• Pour the dough over the cherries and place them in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 30 minutes.

• Cool the finished clafoutis and garnish with powdered sugar.

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