Elegant Blackberry Flaugnarde
I love having delicious and easy dessert recipes that are the perfect exclamation point to a beautiful dinner. This Elegant Blackberry Flaugnarde is one of my family’s favorites.
If you can whip up pancake batter, this is the perfect dessert for you. This effortless confection takes only minutes to mix together and less than an hour to bake. It’s a great dessert to pop into the oven just before you eat dinner as there’s nothing like that warm, cozy bite.
A French Classic
Elegant Blackberry Flaugnarde not only comes together easily, it also only takes a handful of ingredients. With the exception of the blackberries they’re ingredients you probably always have on hand.
While many people have either had or heard of a clafoutis, flaugnarde is a similar French dessert. Where clafoutis is traditionally made with cherries, flaugnarde can be a multitude of different fresh fruit fillings.
For this recipe I am using one of my favorite seasonal fruits, blackberries. I love their balance of sweet and tart flavor and the juicy burst of fruit that melds with the batter. You can substitute the blackberries with your favorite berry, or combination.
The batter for this dessert reminds me of almost a crepe like batter. It’s thin and silky, baking up into a light and puffy treat that hugs each berry and transforms into almost one large pancake.
This is a perfect treat to end a Sunday dinner on as it’s rustic, warm, and comforting. It’s also a gorgeous accompaniment to afternoon tea, and special enough to entertain with or add to your holiday table. You will love how quickly it comes together and your friends and family will adore it from first bite to last crumb.
Whisking Up Elegant Blackberry Flaugnarde
With just a few easy steps you will be wowing your friends and family as you sprinkle down a snow flurry of powdered sugar over this delicate dessert.
- Preheat your oven to 350.
- Butter and flour a baking dish, shaking out the excess flour.
- Spread the berries into the bottom of your baking dish.
- Add your eggs and sugar to a medium bowl and whisk continuously until the sugar dissolves and the eggs are slightly frothy.
- Slowly add in the flour while whisking.
- Stir in the vanilla and lemon zest.
- Add in the milk while whisking.
- Add melted butter. The batter will be thin and liquidy.
- Slowly pour the batter over the top of the berries.
- Bake your Flaugnarde for 45 minutes.
- Remove the Elegant Blackberry Flaugnarde from the oven and allow it to cool slightly.
- Use a fine sieve to shake powdered sugar over the top.
- This is absolutely delicious served warm!
Are you looking for more effortless and elegant dessert recipes? Make sure you check out my recipe for Fresh Strawberry Cobbler.
Elegant Blackberry Flaugnarde
Equipment
- mixing bowl
- whisk
- baking dish or deep pie dish
Ingredients
- 3 cups blackberries or other berries
- 3 eggs
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup milk
- 4 tbsp butter
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- 1 tbsp powdered sugar
- a touch of soft butter and 1 tbsp flour for the baking dish
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F degrees.
- In a medium bowl whisk eggs with sugar until sugar dissolves.
- Incorporate flour slowly until a homogeneous batter is created.
- Add vanilla and lemon zest.
- Pour milk into the batter and combine well. The batter is very liquid.
- Add melted butter and whisk again.
- Butter and dust with flour a 9" baking pie dish!
- Transfer berries into the baking dish and cover with batter.
- Bake for 45 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and let it cool for 10-15 minutes.
- Sprinkle powdered sugar and serve.
- Best eaten while still warm.
What are the 4 tablespoons of butter for as it doesn’t mention butter in the recipe except for buttering the pan?
I am sorry! You add the melted butter into the batter in the end! The video will show exactly! Let me know if you try the recipe!
Can you use frozen fruit?
You need to thaw the fruits and drain the extra water before.
I’m giving the recipe 4 stars because, while it tasted great, some key information was missing in the recipe card at the bottom of the page. I jumped immediately to the recipe like I do with all blog pages that let me “jump to recipe” and while reading through the recipe card could not find a oven temp, when to put in the 4 tbsp of butter (besides a ludicrous assumption that I might need 4 tbsp to butter and flour the pan), how big the pan is supposed to be, and whether or not I’m supposed to cool the flaugnarde completely or enjoy it warm (two conflicting instructions). I had to scroll up to the wordy but of the blog in order to find all this information. If you have a “jump to recipe” button at the top of the page, please have all relevant information contained in the recipe card at the bottom of the page.
Thank you for your comments and suggestions. I took care of all your concerns.
Thank you!
Can you freeze it after making?
No, I don’t think you can freeze this dessert. because of the fruits it will get soggy.