The styling for this dessert begins with choosing your ramekin. Here, I used mini oven-to-table dishes, which work great as this dish is best served warm. I also like the rustic look of the dishes (vs. a ramekin) because this is a rustic-style dessert with no precision needed. Simply throw your pitted cherries into the dish, and let them fall where they may. As the batter bakes, those cherries will peek through. Just be sure to let the dessert cool slightly before adding the confectioners’ sugar or the sugar will melt into the dessert and won’t be visible.

Directions

Prepare the Cherry Clafoutis

Yields 4–6 desserts, depending on size of your serving dishes

Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit (200 degrees Celsius).

Sprinkle sugar into ramekins (or your serving dishes of choice). Add cherries into the bottom of each dish.

In a bowl, combine eggs, sugar, flour, cream, vanilla, and orange zest. Pour over cherries.

Bake for 20–30 minutes, until golden. Dust with confectioners’ sugar.

Credits

Photography: Dan Engongoro

Dishes courtesy of Kitchen Caboodles, Brooklyn

Recipe tags

Cherries Cherry Cobblers Dairy or pareve French cooking French food Fruity dessert Fruity desserts Kosher French cuisine Kosher French food Pareve option Quick-and-easy

Seasons of a Pastry Chef- Cherry Clafoutis

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Nechama

5 years ago

Cherry Clafoutis Can I substitute another fruit for the cherries if cherries are not in season?

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Cnooymow{shman

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5 years ago

For sure. Blueberries would be lovely.

Simone Eisenberg-Blaut

5 years ago

Refreshing light dessert for the summer. This recipe for Cherry Clafoutis was easy to make and brought back family memories (my original recipe came from my aunt in France).
I made the following adjustments:
1. Buttered the 4 small ramekins then sprinkle them with sugar. 2. Pitted the cherries then arrange them into the ramekins. 3. Measured sugar put it into the bowl with lemon zest (did not have orange); mixed it together 4. Measured & mixed all other dry ingredients. 5. In the measuring cup I mixed all wet ingredients and add it to the dry ingredients.