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Berry Clafoutis With Crème Fraîche

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This is an easy, impressive dessert that will take about 20 minutes to assemble and will make your kitchen smell heavenly. The recipe, adapted from “Inspired by Ingredients” by Bill Telepan and Andrew Friedman, asks you to whisk all your ingredients together in one bowl and then layer the batter with your clean berries in a buttered pan. Bake it for about 25 minutes, and you have a sweet finish to dinner.

by Florence Fabricant

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Dinner, Dessert

Servings

(4–6)

Total time

45 min

Calories / serving

188 kcal

Ingredients (10)

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1 tablespoon soft unsalted butterbutter
2 large eggsegg
1/3 cup sugarsugar
1/2 vanilla bean, split, seeds scraped outvanilla
3 tablespoons flourflour
Pinch of saltsalt
2/3 cup crème fraîche
1/3 cup milkmilk
1 pint mixed berries
2 teaspoons confectioners' sugarsugar

Instructions (3 steps)

01Heat oven to 400 degrees. Butter a 10-inch nonstick ovenproof skillet or pie pan.
02Whisk together eggs and sugar until thick and frothy. Add vanilla seeds (save bean for another use), flour and salt. Mix half the crème fraîche with the milk, and whisk into batter. Pour one-third of the batter into prepared pan, place in oven and bake 5 minutes, until just set. Spread berries over top, and pour in rest of batter. Bake about 25 minutes, until lightly browned and batter is set on top. Remove from oven and cool 10 minutes.
03Loosen clafoutis around edges, dust with confectioners' sugar and serve with remaining crème fraîche.

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