Caramel Apple Claflouti
Spiced apple and caramel Claflouti, a custard like cake that is best eaten hot out of the oven.
Equipment
- Cast Iron pan or ceramic baking dish
Ingredients
- 4 whole Eggs (Large)
- 3/4 cup Sugar
- 1 cup Milk
- 1 tbsp Grand Marnier or Cognac, rum.
- 1½ tbsp Vanilla (good stuff)
- ¾ cup All Purpose flour
- ⅛ tsp Salt
Cinnamon Apples
- 3 Apples Peeled and thinly sliced
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- ¼ tsp nutmeg
- ¼ cup sugar
- ¼ cup maple syrup
Caramel
- 1 cup sugar
- 6 tbs Butter
- ½ cup heavy whipping cream
Instructions
Clafouti
- Heat the oven up to 375° and grease your cast iron pan or baking dish.
- Peel and slice your apples, place them in a medium sized bowl.
- Add sugar, spices, and maple syrup to the apples
- Pour out on the bottom of the greased baking sheet.
- Mix together eggs and sugar until well combined.
- Add 1 cup of milk, Grand Marnier, and Vanilla, mix until well combined
- Gently stir in All purpose flour and salt.
- Pour over the top of the Spiced Apples and place in a hot oven.
- Allow to cook for 8 min, then reduce the temperature to 350 and cook for another 30 min or so. The cake is done when a toothpick stuck in the center of the cake come our clean.
- Pour caramel over the top, slice and eat.
Caramel Sauce (complete while the cake is cooking)
- Take out a small saucepan, turn on the heat to medium and put 1 cup of sugar in the pan.
- Use a heat proof spoon, to stir the sugar continually until it melts. (be very careful it gets very hot)
- Keep stirring, and wait till the sugar gets a deep amber color, take off heat if it appears to be burning.
- Add the butter one tablespoon at a time to the hot sugar, it will melt and bubble and spit. Carefully whisk until the butter is melted.
- Slowly add warm/room temperature heavy whipping cream off heat, It will bubble up fast and steam so be careful and go slowly.
- Whisk the caramel until it is well combined.
- Pour over the top of Claflouti and store the rest in a sterile container in the refrigerator for up to a week.