Fresh cherries are so expensive but thankfully the traders in the city have started to sell the season’s first apricots and when I saw the piles of apricots the other day, I knew I wanted to bake them in this sweet flan like batter and make an Apricot Clafoutis. But from what I have read it is only called Clafoutis if made with cherries. If made with other fruit it is called a flaugnarde. Which does not sound nearly as good Clafoutis, so I have decided to keep the name of the recipe as Apricot Clafoutis.
Bake the pudding in a shallow dish so that you get a fair amount of fruit peaking through the batter. Serving it with cold custard is most probably not the traditional way of having this dessert but I loved the contrast between the warm baked custard like pudding and the cold custard. Make your own but store bought custard is just as good. The tartness of the apricots providing a good contrast to the sweetness of the dish
If you do not want to use apricots, you can use pears, other stone fruit like peaches or plums and fresh berries will be quite divine .
Adapted from Trish Deseine —heinstirred
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