Author: story of a kitchen (adapted from Julia Child's recipe)
Recipe type: dessert
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Serves: 6-8
Ingredients
1¼ cup whole milk
⅓ c sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon almond extract
⅛ teaspoon salt
½ cup flour
2 to 3 cups of cherries (I used 2 cups as mine were fairly large), pitted or not - you decide*
powdered sugar, for dusting
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Generously butter an oven-safe round pan (mine was 10-inches in diameter) and set aside.
Using a hand-held electric mixture or free-standing bowl mixer, mix the milk and eggs together. Mix in sugar, salt, vanilla and almond extracts.
Adding gradually to prevent lumps (you can also sift it in), add flour and mix to combine.
Pour in about ¼-inch high amount of batter (if dipping your finger into the pan, it's approximately the tip of your finger). Reserve the rest of the batter for a later step. Put the pan with the ¼-inch batter into the preheated oven and bake until a film forms over the top of it. This took my oven 8 minutes to accomplish.
Place cherries gently on top of partially baked batter, spacing them randomly. Pour the remainder of the patiently-waiting batter into the pan.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes to 1 hour, until set and puffed, and a knife plunged into the center comes out clean. (It took my oven 1 hour to achieve this.)
Dust with powdered sugar and serve warm.
Serves 6-8 people for dessert (or a few ravenous morning people for breakfast, so long as they are awake enough to not chomp on a cherry pit if you decide to use whole cherries).
Notes
* I did not pit my cherries. Because the cherries were wonderfully soft after baking, the pits slipped out rather easily with the pressure of a fork tine. I'd recommend warning your guests of the potential hard chomp of a wayward pit if using whole cherries and carefully supervising children.
Recipe by story of a kitchen at https://www.storyofakitchen.com/dessert-recipes/cherry-clafoutis/