French Cherry Clafoutis Recipe [Easy] 🍒 MasalaHerb.com (2024)

Published: Sep 2, 2019 · Modified: Oct 29, 2023 by Helene Dsouza

Cherry Clafoutis is a classic French cherry dessert made with a flan-like batter.

I share our authentic easy cherry clafoutis recipe further below with how to process shots.

📕 What is clafoutis?

Clafoutis is a French baked dessert that consists of a layer of fruits and a layer of flan-like batter.

A clafoutis is rich in eggs and is not overly sweet.

The classic clafoutis is prepared with whole unpitted cherries because it is said that the seeds add flavor to the dessert.

In french the cherry clafoutis is known as clafoutis aux cerises.

Other variations of clafoutis with other fruits may exist and conservative thinkers may call those flan desserts and not clafoutis.

Clafoutis is sometimes spelled as clafouti in English speaking countries and is pronounced kläfütē.

🍒 Choice of cherries

Black sweet cherries or even sour cherries, so-called "pie cherries", are often while used to balance the sweetness and flavors in a classic cherry clafoutis.

I used our sour cherries form the tree behind the house in the pictures.

You can use fresh cherries, canned cherries or frozen cherries.

I like to use canned cherries because they are more flavor intense, however, they are juicy so excess juice needs to be pressed out a bit.

When using frozen cherries, make sure to defrost your cherries completely before using the fruits in your clafoutis because the dessert might get soggy otherwise.

It is said that whole unpitted cherries need to be used for a tastier clafoutis result.

This is a personal choice but I do prefer to keep the pit in the cherries because the clafoutis tastes better that way.

You can use a cherry pitter to take out the seed core before using your cherries in your clafoutis.

🔪 How to make it?

To make a clafoutis with cherries from scratch is fairly easy.

I use whole unpitted cherries and infused the dessert with whole vanilla beans instead of vanilla extract.

Step 1

Combine flour, sugar, salt and egg.

Infuse the milk with the vanilla bean and mix into the pastry.

Step 2

Grease your baking dish and pour ¼ of the pastry into the dish.

Bake for 5 minutes to create a semi baked bottom, which will hold the cherries better.

Step 3

Spread cherries eavenly over the semi baked pastry and sprinkle with sugar.

Pour remaining pastry batter over the cherries and place your clafoutis into the oven to bake.

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