My Cherry Clafouti

Ingredients

• 200 g blanched almonds
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence (real vanilla bean seeds are better)
• 1 cup self-rising flour
• 1 cup milk
• 4 eggs
• 250 g cherries, ripe and pitted
• icing sugar, for decoration (Confectioner's sugar)
• butter, for greasing a pie dish

Directions

1. 1

   Oven: 180°C.

2. 2

   In a food processor grind the almonds, then add 1/2 cup of the sugar, the vanilla, flour, milk and eggs.

3. 3

   Blend it until the mixture is smooth.

4. 4

   Add the other 1/2 cup sugar to the cherries, and toss well in a bowl. Make sure all the cherry stones have been removed!

5. 5

   Use an ovenproof pie dish, and grease well with butter.

6. 6

   Spread the cherries and the sugar left in bottom of bowl all over the pie dish bottom.

7. 7

   Pour the batter evenly over the berries.

8. 8

   Bake for 45 - 50 minutes.

9. 9

   Dust with icing sugar before serving.