600grcherryweight for whole cherries, including pits, variety according to your taste. if you use sour cherries, add more sugar.
4eggs
80grsugar + optional 1 tablespoon brown sugar
80grflour
1cupmilk250 ml (or blant-based milk)
40grbuttermelted + room temperature butter for the mould
1pinchsalt
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F).
Prepare the batter and cherries
Measure and gently melt butter (in a pan or with the microwave.
In a bowl (or using a blender) mix eggs and sugar. Add flour and salt constantly mixing. Pour milk and melted butter and mix again. That's all. If you follow this order in adding ingredients and if you mix with a whisk, you won't get any lumps.
Grease your pan with butter.
Rinse and dry cherries with a clean cloth.
Place cherries in the mold. Pour the batter over.
Bake and serve
Bake for about 40 minutes.
Optional: 10 minutes before the end, sprinkle a generous tablespoon of brown sugar and increase of 20°F the heat so that it will caramelize a bit. The baking time depends on the size of your mold and the thickness of your filling.
Allow to cool down. Serve cold or warm, alone or with vanilla ice cream or cherry coulis.
Notes
Main steps : First make the batter mixing all ingredients according to the order in the recipe. Grease the pan, add rinsed cherries and pour the preparation then bake.Note that if the cherries you have are a bit acidic, you shall increase the quantity of sugar.