What do you do with a basket of cherries, some eggs, milk, butter and sugar?
Well first, you pit your cherries. Otherwise you’d crack your teeth off…duh.
Yeah, it’s kinda annoying but worth it in the end! You could also just buy frozen pitted cherries….but what’s the fun in that?
Next, you dump everything else in the blender. For realz
Then just pour your flour-sugar-butter-egg-vanilla smoothie right there over your cherries! How easy is that?!
Bake for 35 minutes and wham……! Look what you made!
Why, it’s clafoutis!
A traditional French dessert that’s a cross between a dutch baby (eggy pancake) and a cake. Plus, it’s fun to say and even more fun to eat. Bring it to a fancy schmancy dinner party to impress moms and cute boys alike. It puffs up all pretty in the oven and once out, sinks a bit in the middle, kinda like a delicious cherry flavored souffle. It’s yummy.
Oh, and wear your favorite apron while baking. Preferably striped. And preferably in heels.
Blender Clafoutis
adapted from Gourmet
serves 6-8
Ingredients:
1 lb cherries, pitted
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup milk (I used almond milk)
4 T melted butter
1 vanilla bean, scraped
4 eggs
1/2 cup flour
1/4th tsp salt
Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Spray a nine inch square pan with cooking spray and scatter your pitted cherries along the bottom. Place all other ingredients in a blender and process until smooth. Pour batter over cherries and bake for 40 minutes until golden brown. Let cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Serve alone or with vanilla bean gelato.
Time:
50 minutes
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Any cherry-pitting secret tips?? Any way to avoid red tinted fingers??
I just got done pitting ~20 for my green/cherry smoothie and am red fingered.
My BF uses a teeny-tiny melon baller. He says it works better than a cherry pitter.
Love the name of this delightful recipe!
I’m loving how simple yet impressive this looks – I may try it for the dinner I’m hosting tomorrow night!
I’ve never heard of clafoutis but this looks pretty delicious!
Going on my cooking bucket list for sure
Oh man….quick, easy, AND uses fresh cherries!?!?! My kind of dish!
I use a cherry pitter for pitting an it works grrrreat!
This looks amazing. Cherries are on my plate for this morning – I saw them at the store and couldn’t resist. They’re really just looking SO perfect these days…though I could go for a cherry pitter…haha
This is so pretty! Every time I’m at Homesense I always get myself to a point of being about 90% ready to buy a cherry pitter, but then the money saver in me (who rarely speaks up loud enough to be heard) surfaces and says that the cherry season is so short that it’s not worth it. Regardless of whether or not I actually DO end up buying one at some point, I think I need to make this!
I feel the same way! I am creating my wedding registry right now and part of me wants to put it on, but seriously, cherry season is so short! And using the meat thermometer seems to work ok.
The meat thermometer! What a good idea! Thanks, Barbara! I will have to try that one.
Nice and easy! Whenever I see “clafoutis” I laugh… the name sounds like an STD! I am very mature. Obvi.
don’t even stress, I’m exactly the same. I giggled like an immature child when I read the tile on twitter. it’s not just you.
Don’t forget the red lipstick! Mmmm love Dutch babies, so I’m sure I’ll love this
Yummmm! This looks so delicious! I will be making this very soon. Do you think that it would work with other types of fruit? Also, did you say there were eggs in it because I didn’t see how many you used on the ingredient list? Anywho…. I am super excited to try this recipe
Cherries are never NOT yummy but there’s something about them in July – the yum factor just gets kicked up a notch when you food that’s in season. Love that you made this with a blender too!
Hmm…I feel like I’m in the stepford wives – heels, perfect aprons, “for realz”.
A quick way to make it!
Girl—you need a cherry pitter – I had no idea they exsisted until last year my husband bought me one — Sur La Table–they rock!!!!
Great pictures!
This sounds delicious! We have so much summer fruit at the moment from our allotment.
I am english though…could anyone ‘translate’ the measurements into grams for me?!
Yum! This seems super easy- and the possibilities of different fruit are limitless! Maybe some blackberries….?
I mightttt be a crazy person but I think the amount of eggs you used is missing… But beyond that this looks amazing and who doesn’t LOVE a recipe that is mostly made in a blender
Making this asap …Once I know how many eggs to use 
This is such a cute dessert! I love simple but delicious classics like this, and I am diggin’ the modern blender twist. Nice one!
Hah! Your “How easy is that?!” totally reminds me of Ina
Looks nummy!
4 eggs are pictured–4 eggs for the recipe??? I can’t wait to make this after work tonight!
I wonder why these aren’t more popular because it sounds so easy to make! Cherries are the besttttt
Would this really work with any fruit?
I love clafoutis with pitted cherries. But in France, we (usually) don’t pit our cherries to make le clafoutis ! Pits are supposed to give more taste to the clafoutis (and less juice in the batter too !). Great great recipe anyway…
Oh my gosh Jenna, this looks good! The annoyance of pitting the cherries is made up by the fact that everything else just gets blended. I love it!
Cute dessert — I have never heard of this but I’ve seen variations on a few other blogs lately (Love Veggies and Yoga and Spabettie come to mind) — I must be missing out!
Oh, fresh cherries are wonderful and I love how simple this one is!!!
I would like to try this with raspberries… cherries are so expensive on the east coast!
You forgot the eggs in the recipe…
i actually just bought some cherries and i am eating them now! this dessert looks so perfect. i love the simplicity of such a fancy sounding dessert!
Clafoutis makes me happy. It’s so delicate and beautiful. And fun to say.
My fiance LOVES cherries so I may have to whip this up for him!
what a simple recipe. it’s bassically measure, mix, pour, cook & eat. delicious.
I’d be interested to see how &/or whether a vegan version could be made.
Since this recipe only calls for 1/2 cup of flour, I wonder if it would turn out okay if a gluten-free flour were to be used in substitution. Probably not. Meh. I love fresh cherries! I would probably eat the whole bag just preparing the recipe anyway.
Actually, you can ! I make mine with 2/3 corn starch, 1/3 almond meal (or half each).
I’m guessing this recipe needs 4 eggs from the photo… I didn’t see them in the ingredients list. I’m making this soon – looks delish!
This makes me want to run out and buy some cherries like.right.now.
Looks really good and summery. Any tips for pitting cherries?
I bought one last summer… it will change your life.
http://www.amazon.com/OXO-Good-Grips-Cherry-Pitter/dp/B000NQ925K/ref=sr_1_1?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1310396328&sr=1-1
This looks so delicious! I love dutch babies. I love cake. I think that means I love clafoutis (even if I don’t know how to pronounce it).
As if I need another excuse to buy cherries!
Yum! Could I use an electric mixer instead of a blender?
Dear Lord, PLEASE let our oven get fixed so that I can make this ASAP!
Thanks.
Lauri
Love! Cherries are so beautiful. We’re so lucky to have so much wonderful fruit in California.
Amazing! Looks delicious and not too tedious of a recipe
Jenna I made a mixed berry clafoutis in my blender (Vitamix) about 2 weeks ago and posted about it! Very similar to what you did. And SO EASY!
Tons and tons of people wrote in that they had never tried or even heard of a clafoutis, but they tried it…and were so happy they did.
Yours looks great, too!
Mmh, I printed the recipe earlier at work, followed the instructions and now wanted to comment (while its in the oven) and saw that the printed recipe did not include the eggs. So we will see how it turns out. It looks fine for now, but it will probably be not very tasty…
Genius! I love it!
Oh yum!!!
We have fresh tiny little strawberries in season right now (about the size of small cherries) I’m going to make it this week! Thanks
Haha I pretty much just want to make this because of the awesome name!
Looks delicious.
want this now!
Perfect timing – I bought a bunch of fresh cherries yesterday and I’ve got the remaining ingredients handy. Looks like pitting cherries is in my evening plans.
Whaaaa?! Hi easy, delicious dessert!
we went cherry picking the other day! This is perfect! thanks!
I had no idea that “clafoutis” was spelled with an “s” at the end. Thanks for clearing that up
These sound awesome! Love how easy this looks. Yum!
This looks way too easy! I guess having to pit the cherries makes up for that haha. Good thing I have a cherry pitter!
I love how easy this recipe is! The cherries are gorgeous too!
This looks like work ( to de-pit the cherries) but sososososooo worth it
Holy coincidence, Batman! I made a Cherry Clafoutis yesterday (from a William Sonoma cookbook)! It was a bit too eggy for my taste, but all 12 pieces are gone, so I assume some of the others at the party loved it!
This is so great! I had a pound of fresh strawberries just waiting to be used and made this with them this afternoon. Substituting the strawberries worked perfectly and they ended up melting into it, almost like ribbons of jam. I can’t wait to have it for dessert tonight! I may have already snuck a taste…
I love how easy this is! But I do not love pitting cherries.
This looks delicious! My family is visiting from out of state and it is Bastille day on Thursday so I think I will make this!
This looks super yummy. Now I just need to find a way to make is single serving so I don’t eat the whole thing. Or find a fancy smancy dinner party to attend.
Oh I love cherries and cherry season! I had clafouti for the first time when I was living in Paris…. this recipe looks super easy. I think it could be good over blueberries too.
I can’t believe how easy this is! Jenna, you never fail to inspire when it comes to dessert time!
That sounds absolutely delicious! I think I’m going to have to try making it gluten free!
I made this with raspberries since I’m not such a huge fan of cherries, and I used a hand mixer since I don’t own a blender, and it turned out wonderful!!
Bought 20 lb of cherries for 10 bucks at the farmers market …. its in the oven now !!!
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