This combination of pears and raspberries in a fancy-sounding dessert is actually very easy to put together! For the full experience of this dish, serve it warm.

• Preheat oven to 400ºF. Coat a 9½″ round deep-dish pie pan with cooking spray. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon sugar across bottom of pan. Tilt pan to coat as evenly as possible. Set aside.

• In a large bowl, whisk together ½ cup sugar, flour, eggs, milk, margarine, lemon zest, and vanilla. Peel, core, and thinly slice the pears.

• Arrange the pear slices in prepared pan. Scatter raspberries on top of pears. Pour batter over fruit.

• Sprinkle remaining sugar over batter. Bake until clafouti is puffy and firm to touch, about 45 minutes.

• Remove from oven and allow to cool slightly. Dust top of clafouti with powdered sugar. Serve warm.

Clafouti Trivia

Can you say “kla- foo- tee”? Clafouti is a baked custard-like French dessert. It's typically prepared with fresh fruit and a batter similar to pancake batter, and it resembles a mouthwatering pudding cake! Originally from the Limousin region, clafoutis apparently spread throughout France during the nineteenth century.