Clafoutis - French dessert, a cross betweenpie and bake traditionally baked with cherries with pits and filled dough-like dough for pancakes. This dessert is prepared quickly and with minimal effort, in addition, the stuffing can be changed according to your taste: blueberries, raspberries, apricots and others. Today we will prepare Clafoutis with cherries - fruit, which is rarely used for culinary purposes, but so fond of children ... and adults). Clafoutis dough can be prepared the night before and leave overnight in the refrigerator to please the family in the morning this warm fragrant dessert for breakfast. Cooking?

Ingredients For Clafoutis with cherries and almonds (4 servings):
300-400 g cherries;
3 eggs,
2 egg yolks;
200 ml of milk;
200 ml cream 30% fat;
60 g of sugar;

vanilla bean (can be replaced by vanilla sugar)
20 g of corn starch;
50g ground almonds;
butter for greasing forms;
powdered sugar;
sour cream, whipped cream or vanilla ice cream to feed.

Method of preparation:
1. Beat eggs with the yolks with the sugar and starch to the thick lush mass. Add vanilla seeds weight, nuts, pour the milk and cream and mix until a uniform dough.


2. heat the oven to 180 * C. The form in which you will bake your Clafoutis pour the batter, put the berries, and bake for 20-30 minutes until golden (if the dough prepared the night before and was in the refrigerator, it may take a little longer).

3. Give Clafoutis cool for 5-10 minutes, generously sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Serve with sour cream, whipped cream or a scoop of ice cream.

P.S. While many sources recommend the use of cherry wood or cherry with seeds for extra flavor, I recommend still pull the bones out of berries, because it is not very convenient to have them;)

Bon appetite!