My Cherry Clafouti

• 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

1. Oven: 180C.
2. In a food processor grind the almonds, then add 1/2 cup of the sugar, the vanilla, flour, milk and eggs.
3. Blend it until the mixture is smooth.
4. Add the other 1/2 cup sugar to the cherries, and toss well in a bowl.
5. Make sure all the cherry stones have been removed!
6. Use an ovenproof pie dish, and grease well with butter.
7. Spread the cherries and the sugar left in bottom of bowl all over the pie dish bottom.
8. Pour the batter evenly over the berries.
9. Bake for 45 - 50 minutes.
10. Dust with icing sugar before serving.

blanched almonds, sugar, vanilla, flour, milk, eggs, cherries, icing sugar, butter

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/my-cherry-clafouti-319045 (may not work)