Cherry Clafoutis (2024)

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What does clafoutis mean in French? ›

[klafuti ] masculine noun. batter pudding (with fruit) Collins French-English Dictionary © by HarperCollins Publishers.

If your oven is too hot the Cherry Clafoutis can easily overcook and become rubbery.

Pour the batter over the cherries. 3. Bake until a thin knife inserted near the center of the clafouti comes out nearly clean (a few crumbs are fine) and the top is a deep golden color, about 35 to 40 minutes. If the top is brown before the custard is done, loosely cover with a sheet of foil.

Rather than a pancake, a clafoutis is more like a flan or a tart. The batter is also thin but uses more eggs and sugar than a Dutch baby and is whisked rapidly until it's fluffy (or you can use a blender hack for the dreamiest clafoutis).

How does clafoutis taste? Clafoutis has the texture of an oven-baked pancaked. It is sweet, but not terribly so, and the chunks of fresh fruit are enjoyable to the palate.

Clafoutis originated in a region in south-central France called Limousin. Its name comes from the Occitan word “clafir,” meaning “to fill.” So popular was it “to fill” a dish with fruit and batter, that by the 19th century, clafoutis' renown had spread from Limousin to other regions of France and bordering countries.

Contrary to clafoutis, the fruit needs to be cooked down, which lends the dish more malleability in the integrated flavors. As a result, cobblers are more compote-like in palate, as opposed to clafoutis's more natural fruit taste.

The clafoutis should just barely jiggle in the center. If you don't have access to ramekins, you can also bake this is a deep 10 in pie pan. I would opt for a ceramic pie dish vs metal. You'll have to adjust the bake time to about 35 minutes or so.

The batter should be runny but not the result! Did it have long enough in the oven at the right temperature? Is your oven a bit "slow"? No, it shouldn't, more like a cooked batter.

Reheating Instructions:

Clafoutis lasts about 3 to 4 days, but is best served within 24 hours. It can be eaten cold or warmed up. If you choose to reheat it, microwave it in 15-second intervals until warm, or cover it with foil and bake in the oven at 350 degrees F for about 5 to 10 minutes.

What is a clafoutis in English? ›

noun. cla·​fou·​ti ˌklä-fü-ˈtē variants or less commonly clafoutis. : a dessert consisting of a layer of fruit (such as cherries) topped with batter and baked.

The hot water evenly distributes heat around the custard, ensuring that the eggs don't curdle. It also prevents the top from drying out and splitting before the inside is fully cooked. Without a bain marie, you'll have a rubbery and cracked dessert.

If you would like the inside of the finished dish to be a little less "egg-y" then cut the number of eggs down to 3, and many many reviewers also found that just 3 Tablespoons of butter worked better for them.

While these pancakes are derived from the German pancake dish, it is said that the name Dutch baby was coined by one of Victor Manca's daughters, where "Dutch" perhaps was her corruption of the German autonym deutsch. Manca's Cafe claimed that it owned the trademark for Dutch babies in 1942.

Like popovers and Yorkshire pudding, the thing that gives Dutch babies their signature puff is steam.

, plural cla·fou·tis [klah-foo-, tee]. a tart made of fruit, especially cherries, baked in a thick, sweet batter.

Frangipane is like a light marzipan with eggs in it you can bake in a tart pan. It's a classic and easy to make, but I didn't want to make a pie crust. Clafouti is perfect for summer, a light custard baked around fresh fruit.

Bake for a further 10 minutes and check to see if the clafoutis is cooked by inserting a skewer in the centre and seeing if it comes out clean. If not, continue to bake and check at 5-minute intervals. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes before serving.

The word dessert is derived from the French word desservir, which translates to “to clear the table.” This origin is apt, considering that the first use of desserts was to wash down the aftertaste of a large meal with something sweet.

We use different adjectives to translate “soft” in French : doux, mou and moelleux.

What does Foufou mean in French? ›

[fufu ] Word forms: foufou, fofolle [fɔfɔl ] adjective. nutty (informal) ⧫ scatty (informal) Collins French-English Dictionary © by HarperCollins Publishers.

[pævˈləʊvə ] noun. dessert composé d'une meringue garnie de fruits et de crème chantilly. Collins French-English Dictionary © by HarperCollins Publishers.