My Cherry Clafouti

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 200 g blanched almonds
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence (real vanilla bean seeds are better)
• 1 cup self-rising flour
• 1 cup milk
• 4 eggs
• 250 g cherries, ripe and pitted
• icing sugar, for decoration (confectioner's sugar)
• butter, for greasing a pie dish

Recipe

• 1 oven: 180°c.
• 2 in a food processor grind the almonds, then add 1/2 cup of the sugar, the vanilla, flour, milk and eggs.
• 3 blend it until the mixture is smooth.
• 4 add the other 1/2 cup sugar to the cherries, and toss well in a bowl. make sure all the cherry stones have been removed!
• 5 use an ovenproof pie dish, and grease well with butter.
• 6 spread the cherries and the sugar left in bottom of bowl all over the pie dish bottom.
• 7 pour the batter evenly over the berries.
• 8 bake for 45 - 50 minutes.
• 9 dust with icing sugar before serving.