Name: Chocolate and Griottine Clafoutis
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: 220 g/8 oz/2 cups drained griottines; 1 tbsp cornflour (cornstarch); 55 g/2 oz/½ cup cocoa; 165 g/5½ oz/¾ cup sugar; 2 tsp plain flour; icing (confectioners’) sugar, for dusting; 125 ml/4 floz/½ cup water; 2½ tbsp sugar; 2 eggs; 2 tsp kirsch, from the griottines; 180 ml/6 floz/¾ cup milk; 2½ tbsp plain flour; 200 g/7 oz plain chocolate; 100 g/4 oz/1 stick butter; 2 tbsp sugar

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Formulas for Flavour

By John Campbell

Published 2001

About

Clafoutis is a famous dessert from the Limousin region close to Périgord in France, it consists of cherries cooked in batter in a buttered dish and served warm with a dusting of icing sugar on top — a sweet Yorkshire pudding if you like. The following recipe moves away from the thick pancake style of batter traditionally used and has a lighter finish. It is great for Sunday lunch with the family, especially on a cold winter day, and is perhaps the easiest recipe in this book. You can vary i