Chefs everywhere are showing off the season’s best stone fruits in the simple, classic French dessert clafoutis (pronounced: kla-FOO-tea). Some describe it as a cross between a pancake and a flan with ...

WHEN I FIRST read Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” decades ago as a teenager, I was thrilled to discover a simple dessert called a clafoutis — essentially a fruit custard-like ...

With cherries at their peak, we channeled a Julia Child recipe to create cherry clafoutis. We recreated her recipe for the classic French dessert which can be enjoyed all year long. And, as a bonus, ...

Snacks: In your next clafoutis, replace the traditional cherries with apricots! This recipe is super easy to make and will ...

Cherry clafoutis is a simple peasant dessert from the Limousin region in France. It features the stone fruit baked in a dish with a flour-thickened custard batter. The plump, juicy cherries are ...

The short season for cherries is reason enough to make a clafouti, but this little-known dessert is also perfect for most fruit and berries as they come into season. Not a custard and hardly a pancake ...

I dream of early summer French breakfasts, when fruit-laden clafouti is often the star of the meal. The fruit — most often pitted fresh cherries or halved apricots — is baked adrift in a thick, ...

It’s been a fruity month for me. Also, a busy one. And desserts can be hard. I once spent something like 11 hours on a cake for this column. That wasn’t happening this week. Fortunately, I was able to ...

If you’ve ever rifled through your kitchen searching for something — anything — sweet to eat but come up empty-handed, you understand the notion of a dessert emergency. I have experienced many, but ...