Berry Clafoutis With Crème Fraîche Food

BLACKBERRY CLAFOUTIS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch baking dish with butter.
• Add blackberries to the prepared baking dish.
• Stir milk and eggs together in a bowl. Whisk in flour, sugar, and salt and mix until batter is smooth. Pour batter over blackberries.
• Bake in the preheated oven on the middle rack until eggs start to set, about 25 minutes. Sprinkle brown sugar on top and bake until golden brown, about 20 more minutes.

BERRY CLAFOUTIS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400º F.
• Spray 4 (1-cup) shallow ovenproof dishes with cooking spray. Sprinkle each with 1 tsp. caster sugar. Add berries.
• Beat cream cheese, remaining caster sugar, flour, vanilla and 1 egg until well blended. Add remaining eggs; mix well. Gradually beat in milk; pour over berries.
• Bake 20 min. or until tops are golden brown and toothpick inserted in centers of topping comes out clean. Cool slightly. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

BERRY CLAFOUTIS

Steps:

• Toss berries in a medium bowl with the kirsch, eau de vie or crème de cassis and 2 tablespoons of the sugar, and let sit for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, sift together all-purpose flour and almond flour.
• Heat oven to 375 degrees. Butter a 9- or 10-inch ceramic tart pan or clafoutis dish.
• In a medium bowl, beat eggs with remaining sugar, seeds from the vanilla bean or vanilla, and salt. Place a strainer over the bowl and drain berries, allowing all of the liquid from the berries to run into the egg and sugar mixture. Whisk to combine. Arrange drained berries in the buttered baking dish.
• Beat the sifted flours into the egg mixture and whisk until smooth. Add yogurt or kefir and combine well. Pour over fruit, scraping out all of the batter with a rubber spatula.
• Bake for 35 minutes, or until the top is browned and the clafoutis is firm and puffed. Press gently on the top in the middle to see if it's firm. If it isn't, return to the oven for 5 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool on a rack. Serve warm or at room temperature.

BERRY CLAFOUTIS WITH CRèME FRAîCHE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees. Butter a 10-inch nonstick ovenproof skillet or pie pan.
• Whisk 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.
• Loosen clafoutis around edges, dust with confectioners' sugar and serve with remaining crème fraîche.

MIXED BERRY CREME FRAICHE CRUMBLE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Mix together the berries, flour and sugar and pour into a 8 by 8-inch baking dish. Spread the creme fraiche over the top of the berries evenly. Mix together the brown sugar, flour and salt. Mix in the melted butter. Top the creme fraiche with this mixture. Place in the oven and bake for 25 minutes, or until the topping is golden brown.

STRAWBERRY CLAFOUTI

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Spray Pam on two, 16 oz baking dishes.
• Rinse, hull and slice strawberries in an egg slicer (leave them a little wet); toss strawberries with cornstarch and 1 tsp sugar until evenly coated; evenly distribute strawberries in bottom of dishes and set aside.
• Whisk eggs, milk and vanilla. Then whisk in ¼ cup sugar, salt, cinnamon, baking powder and flour until frothy and lumps are gone. You can use your blender/food processor.
• Pour batter over strawberries.
• Bake until puffed, golden brown, about 40 minutes.
• Let stand for 10 minutes.
• Dust with powdered sugar and serve warm.