Cherry Clafoutis Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly

Clafoutis is a delightfully rustic baked French fruit dessert

It is traditionally made with berries or cherries, but often made with apples as well, arranged in a tart pan and covered with a thick flan-like batter.

My clafoutis is a winner: Not too sweet, fragrant and totally gluten-free-friendly, and very easy to make. I love  how the cherries float to the top during baking. I have taken some poetic license and added an optional light chocolate topping to my clafoutis recipe (the picture clafoutis doesn’t have a chocolate topping), just because berries and chocolate go so beautifully together.

A cherry pitter will pit the cherries for you in no time.

I love that little tool, not only for cherries but for olives and fresh dates. Still if you get too lazy to pit the cherries, use frozen cherries: They are delicious, and pitted!

Ingredients

• 4 cups pitted cherries, frozen cherries great too
• ¼ cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons tapioca flour (health food stores)
• 3 eggs
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1 cup flour, any flour including gluten-free
• ½ cup oil
• 2 cups milk, dairy-free ok
• ¼ cup crème de cassis (liquor stores)
• Good pinch salt
• 1/2 cup grated semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, best quality (optional, but wonderful in the clafoutis)

Instructions