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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
French at Heart: Recipes That Bring France Home

By Marjorie Taylor and Kendall Smith Franchini

Published 2025

  • About

Clafoutis is a time-honored French dessert, made with a crêpelike batter that gets poured over fresh fruit and then baked into a scoopable custard that can be served hot, when the clafoutis is beautifully puffed, or at room temperature. For many French people, it’s a throwback, just the sort of thing their grandmothers might have made when they were young. Traditionally, it’s made with cherries, with the pits left in, which prevents cherry juice from staining the batter. Other fruit