Pastries & desserts

Clafoutis

Fruit baked in a soft, lightly sweetened egg-and-milk batter.

Say it: klah-foo-TEE (approximate English pronunciation)

Clafoutis surrounds fruit with a simple batter that sets into a soft baked dessert. Cherries are the familiar traditional choice, although menus also use berries, plums and other fruit. The texture sits between a cake and a custard. It is usually served as a portion cut from a larger dish, with the fruit visible throughout.

Names to look for on menus

clafoutis, clafouti, cherry clafoutis, cherry clafouti

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