Clafoutis!

I have to admit that I am not an ice cream lover ( I still have to give a chance to the Guiness ice cream). So, living in San Francisco is great, the cool summer is the perfect excuse to make warm, and confortable desserts! One of my favorite is the clafoutis. It is a traditional dessert from the Limousin region in France.

I can still remember the first time I had it, I was a child and we had played all the afternoon at the beach, coming back at my friend's place, her Mom was just taking the clafoutis out from the oven...

Ingredients :

1 pound of cherries

1/2 cup of milk

5 Tablespoons of butter

2 oz of flour

3 oz of sugar

3 large eggs

1 1/4 cup of cream

Preheat the oven at 350°F.

Bring the milk to a boil. In another small pot, melt the butter.

In a bowl, mix the flour, sugar, eggs, and cream together. Slowly add the hot milk, then the melted butter.

Prepare you mold by buttering it. You can either do the clafoutis in individual ramequins or in a big mold.

Arrange the cherries in the mold. The clafoutis is traditionnaly made with cherries with their pits, it is supposed to give taste while baking. Just warn your guests about the pits.

Poor the batter over the cherries and bake in the preheated oven for 35 min, or until a toothpick inserted in the clafoutis come out clean.

Sprinkle with powdered sugar, and serves hot or cold.