welcome friends welcome back to the
kitchen today
i'm going to make a clefuti i was
rooting through the freezer
and i found these frozen cherries
i don't remember how long they've been
there so it's time for them to go
and i thought i'd make a cliffordie i
don't have all of the ingredients i wish
i had a lemon today because a lemon zest
in this recipe or even orange zest would
be really great
so we're gonna make do with what we have
i've got this cast iron pan and i've got
some butter
the oven has been preheated to 350
degrees
i'm just going to stick the pan in the
oven to heat it
up and melt the butter and then we'll
move on to the batter
and the batter is really simple it is
essentially just a pancake or a waffle
batter
not a whole lot different than a dutch
baby if you live in north america
you probably come across a dutch baby so
we're going to start out with
some eggs in this mixing bowl so this is
three eggs into the mixing oh
the shell okay so three eggs into the
mixing
jug there is some sugar
some salt and
a little bit of vanilla
and we give this a really good whipping
okay i think the eggs are about as
frothy as i'm going to get them
and you don't really need to go too
frothy because we're going to put in the
milk next
which will cut down on the amount of
froth there is anyway
and just a little bit of a whisk
and then we put in the flour same sort
of deal
whisk it in you're not going to get a
really thick batter
it's going to be extremely thin
and that's it so now the frying pan
is preheated and the butter is bubbling
up nicely
so in goes the batter
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and then we put the cherries in on top
now of course fresh cherries would be
better they'd be miles better but you
know it is the end of february in canada
so
a little bit of winter time and frozen
cherries are what we've got
but you could put almost any fruit on
top you could put
sliced peaches sliced apples
pretty much anything that you want
blueberries would be really good
i think just knowing that you could put
a fruit component would completely
change this according to the seasons so
i'm just sprinkling a little bit of
sugar on top and then i'm going to stick
this back in the oven
for about a half an hour 40 minutes
something like that i'll keep an eye on
it
let's see how it goes
here we go look at that beautiful
now dusting of powdered sugar on top
now as it cools here it's going to
deflate a little bit which is kind of
sad to watch because it comes out of the
oven and it just looks so amazing and
then it you know
so the thing is if you're going to if
you're going to serve this at a dinner
party
you want to serve it warm straight out
of the oven
so it's the kind of thing where you you
make the batter ahead of time
stick the batter in the fridge and then
cook it
ala minute or just before you need to
serve it so as you're
finishing up your last course and your
dinner party
stick it in the oven and and then bring
it out just as the tea
or the coffee is ready um i hope julie
gets here soon because
i really want to dig into this
hey jules hello glenn hello friends
oh i think there's a fork already cherry
cla foodie
clefuti it's fun to say
it is
i really like that it's dessert it is
how can you go wrong it's it's like a
custardy
it's a cherry it is tasty treats it's
part way between a custard
and a dutch baby pancake or a sweet
yorkshire pudding but that custardy
flavor in the bottom there
you're a sucker for a custard i am we
all know this
to be true i am a sucker that's really
good
i think apricots would go really well in
here too
any stone fruit would work really well
peaches apricots plums cherries
all of those things okay so
this is a winner any fruit at all would
work in that
um it doesn't take much time at all to
make and it is something that you can
make at the end of a dinner party fresh
while your guests are still hanging out
because it is
well and it is best coming to the table
hot while it it's
still puffed up before it deflates but
for now there's just the two of us so
just keep on eating thanks for stopping
by see you again soon
you