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If flan and custard had a baby, it would be a clafoutis. Clafoutis is a baked French dessert, traditionally with black cherries, covered with a thick flan-like batter. It is usually served warm or at room temperature dusted with powdered sugar. When I first came across this dish, my immediate thought was, "Wow that looks amazing but it looks complicated to make." I sure was wrong! Clafoutis is super easy to make with simple ingredients and the baking time is only 35 minutes. If anything, the only time consuming part of this recipe is removing the pits from the cherries...

Ingredients:
- 1 and 1/2 cup cherries (halved and pits removed)

- 2 tbsp butter (melted)
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup milk

- 1/2 cup granulated sugar

- 2 tsp almond extract

- 3/4 cup flour

- 1/2 tsp salt

- Powdered sugar

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350F

2. Cut cherries in halves and remove the pits. Set aside.

3. Grease a 9" round baking dish with the melted butter and spread the cherries evenly in the dish.

4. Blend the eggs, milk, granulated sugar, almond extract, flour and salt in a blender until smooth. No need to worry about over-mixing the gluten here, you want the batter to be really well incorporated.

5. Pour batter over the cherries.

6. Bake in the oven for 35 minutes.

7. Let cool for 10 minutes before dusting with powdered sugar.

8. Serve warm or at room temperature.

Recipe: Cherry Clafoutis

July 9, 2021

Ingredients:
- 1 and 1/2 cup cherries (halved and pits removed)

- 2 tbsp butter (melted)
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup milk

- 1/2 cup granulated sugar

- 2 tsp almond extract

- 3/4 cup flour

- 1/2 tsp salt

- Powdered sugar

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350F

2. Cut cherries in halves and remove the pits. Set aside.

3. Grease a 9" round baking dish with the melted butter and spread the cherries evenly in the dish.

5. Pour batter over the cherries.

6. Bake in the oven for 35 minutes.

7. Let cool for 10 minutes before dusting with powdered sugar.

8. Serve warm or at room temperature.

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Maison Jules, an Parisian inspired line, is currently having a #MJPiecesOfParis campaign where they discover pieces of Paris in different cities. They stopped by San Francisco last weekend and invited some fellow SF bloggers and I to a French baking and cooking class. I even brought along my fiancé Chris because I thought it would be so fun to cook together! Actually we are pretty good cooks but we don't bake a lot. Anyways, the event was held at Parties That Cook in North Beach and there were five cooking stations where each team whipped up a specific dish... classic gruyère soufflé, croque monsieurs and madames, cream filled éclairs and puffs, vanilla bean crème brûlée ice cream, and Julia's chocolate soufflé. Everything turned out amazing! My mouth is watering just thinking about them! Merci, Maison Jules! What a fun and delectable afternoon!