French Food Friday - Clafoutis Grandmere aux cerises

recipe and photo from here

Last night our lovely neighbour appeared with lots of lovely cherries, freshly picked from her farm.

So I am now thinking about what to make. Clafoutis is one possibility,  this is one of our favourites as you can eat it eat hot or cold. I love it cold as it is refreshing on a hot summer's day.

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Ingredients (for 8 people): -

600 g of cherries

40 g butter  +20g for greasing the dish

4 eggs 

200 ml milk 

100 g  flour

60 g  sugar 

1 sachet vanilla sugar (Note if you do not have this use a teaspoon of vanilla essence)

1 pinch of salt

Icing sugar

Preparation
Preheat the oven to 210 ° C (thermostat 7).

Wash the cherries under a trickle of  water, trim  and drain them.
Remove the stones, note  the traditional recipe says leave them, so it is up to you to see if you leave them or not...

Dissolve 40 g of butter in a small heavy saucepan.

In a large bowl, mix flour, sugar, salt and vanilla sugar. Whish the eggs lightly then add the milk and whisk together.

Add the melted butter and whisk again. Grease the dish, place the  cherries in the dish then pour the clafoutis mix over the top.

Put in the oven for 10 minutes at 210 ° C then turn it down to 180 ° C and bake for a further 20 minutes. Serve cold or warm, sprinkled with icing sugar.

bon appetit, leeann x