I'm very blessed to have my brother and his family living near me. Whenever I have my niece and nephews over, we "make something". It's become something of a tradition. We will routinely bake a cake, cookies, cupcakes, donuts...you name it. The last time they were over I had just finished making some jam and other canned goodies. Apparently this left an impression on their young impressionable minds.
A couple days ago I received a text from my brother informing me the kids had tackled their pie cherry tree for their "Aunt Nenna". He was giving me a heads up that I would soon be receiving a small amount of cherries. I was of course ecstatic!
Well, as promised the cherries arrived. They are gorgeous, if not a little on the potentially over-ripe stage. What is a girl to do with roughly 2 cups of almost too far gone pie cherries? Why, pop up the iPad and do a search for Clafouti of course (I'm such a techy gadget geek...)!
I found a few different recipes consisting of pretty much the same ingredients. I finally settled on this one as a base. Naturally I tweaked it, failed to measure anything, and basically just winged it.
I switched the sugar for honey, tossed in some slivered almonds, a little flour and eggs and whisked together. I naturally went for the buttermilk over regular, cause that's just how I roll, and then poured the whole gooey mess over my cherries.
After 40 minutes in the oven, I had a fabulous custardy-like cherry dessert. The tartness of the pie cherries complemented the honey-sweetened clafouti. Yum! Thanks kiddoes!!! :)
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