Blueberry clafoutis is a classic French dessert made by baking blueberries in a custard. This simple blueberry clafoutis recipe is easy to make.
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Blueberry Clafoutis
What on earth is a clafoutis?
Pronounced clah-foo-tee, this French dessert originated in the Limousin region. Traditionally made with black cherries, clafoutis is a dessert of flan-like batter poured over fruit and baked in a buttered dish. It is served slightly warm and garnished with powdered sugar.
If you want to get technical, a clafoutis filled with any fruit other than cherries is technically known as a flaugnarde. Therefore, this recipe would actually be most accurately described as a blueberry flaugnarde. But since the term clafoutis is so much better known, we'll stick with calling it a blueberry clafoutis.
This dessert falls roughly into the dessert category that includes dishes like flan and baked custard. The addition of flour into the batter gives it more heft.
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Tips for Making Blueberry Clafoutis
- Use fresh blueberries if possible.
- Plan ahead to let the blueberry clafoutis cool down to lukewarm temperature before serving. Or you can even served it chilled for breakfast!
- Optional garnishes include powdered sugar and cream. It's up to you whether you add these on or not. I actually like my clafoutis just as it is, with no garnishes.
- Try substituting different fruits, or combining different fruits. I like to make a raspberry clafoutis, too!
If you enjoy this blueberry clafoutis, try my other Fresh from Florida recipe for corn on the cob. Sweet corn is in season in Florida from October to June.
Blueberry Clafoutis
Blueberry clafoutis is a classic French dessert made by baking blueberries in a custard. This simple blueberry clafoutis recipe is easy to make.
Ingredients
- 2 cups blueberries
- 2 tablespoons white wine
- 1 teaspoon orange zest
- 1 cup milk
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup all purpose flour
- 3 large eggs
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 400 F and butter a 9 inch cake or pie pan.
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Toss the blueberries, wine, and orange zest in a bowl. Let marinate for 5 minutes.
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Drain the marinade liquid into a blender. Add the milk, vanilla, flour, eggs, and salt, and sugar to the blender. Put the blueberries in the pan.
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Blend the blender mixture until frothy. Pour over the blueberries in the pan.
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Bake for 15 minutes at 400 F. Then, turn the temperature down to 300 and bake 15 more minutes, or until the temperature in the middle of the custard reaches 170 F. Let cool to slightly warm. Serve slightly warm, or chilled.
This looks like a great recipe that my whole family would enjoy! I am going to make it this weekend.
First time to read about this and I'm craving already. Thanks for sharin!
I love blueberries and this one is a must try for me. I hope to try baking this for my family, so we have a new kind of dessert.
I like how your first line was exactly what I was thinking! lol Looks interesting though, I'd give it a go.
Want to make a great recipe better? Instead of the orange zest, put a whole lemon sliced thin into your blender. Add a bit of orange juice and mush the lemon since you will be eating it skin and all. Strain the liquid and put the pulp marinade on the berries. Add the liquid to the custard where it calls for orange zest.
That sounds really good! I once boiled and blended 2 whole oranges to make an orange almond cake.
Where's the sugar in this recipe? Every clafoutis I've made had 1/4-1/2 cup of sugar. I followed this recipe and really missed the sweetness.
So strange that the 1/4 cup sugar disappeared! I have restored it just now.