August 13, 2006
Blackberry Clafouti
Ingredients:
3 cups fresh blackberries
3 large eggs
1/2 vanilla bean
3/4 cup milk
3/4 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup sugar PLUS 1 tablespoon
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon Cointreau
1/8 teaspoon salt
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375. Butter or spray with baking spray with flour one 9 inch round pie or tart pan*. Sprinkle the blackberries with the one tablespoon of sugar and arrange on the pan. Split the vanilla bean and scrape the seeds into a saucepan. Add the vanilla pod, milk and cream and heat until you see small bubbles. Remove the bean pod from the pot and then remove the pot from heat. In a medium bowl, beat together sugar and eggs until light and fluffy. Slowly add the flour and salt and mix thoroughly. Slowly beat in the milk mixture. Finally, stir in the Cointreau. Pour the custard over the berries in the pie pan. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until puffy, browned and the center no longer jiggles to the touch. Excellent warm or at room temperature. This is best the day it is made.
*A heart shaped pan was used here, but traditionally a clafouti is made in a round tin.
My thoughts:
Clafouti (sometimes called clafoutis) is a French dessert that is typically made with unpitted black cherries. The best way to describe the texture is that it is sort of like baked custard crossed with a fluffy pancake. We used blackberries because they are in season and are our favorite berry. Other berries and fruits would be good as well. My husband had the idea for this dessert almost a year ago and has been waiting until blackberry season to make it. It was well worth the wait, the caramelized bottom and top are delightful and the berries add a welcome bit of tartness.
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13 Comments:
That's just lovely, Rachel. I adore blackberries, and this sounds like a perfect blackberry dessert.
wow, that looks yummy! is the heart-shaped dish required for clafouti? i saw this photo on flickr and it is a funny coincidence that i just picked a bucket of fresh blackberries...although i made pie instead. next round i will give this a go. where do you find vanilla beans?
The heart shaped dish really adds to the beauty of your clafoutis. Gorgeous!
Thanks for the lovely comments!
1. McCormick's makes vanilla beans and they are sold along side their other spices. A place like Whole Foods or another "natural/gourmet" food store would have it too.
2. The heart shaped pan isn't needed, normally one uses a pie pan. My husband had bought me this heart shaped tart pan and it was too pretty to resist!
It looks so pretty and tasty! Yum!
Beautiful! I see we both had blackberry days yesterday...
Love the dish - it makes the clafouti even more beautiful.
You and Matt should make me a deep-dish pizza in that pan. I am scared of this clafouti thing -- custardy? Hmm. But it LOOKS like pizza in that photo.
That is a beautiful dessert! I love that dish too! Glad I found your site, it's fun and gorgeous!
Rachel - that is amazing! I particularly love that dish!
If you make the clafouti in a tin, how do you "de-pan" it, so that it still looks lovely?
Lisa: You don't. I've never seen cladouti de-panned.It's just too big and floppy. Perhaps if you made individual sized ones you might be able to, but I haven't tried that.
We just picked an ton of blackberries and i am trying to find recipes for them! Can't wait to make this...thanks for the recipe!
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