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Vegan Golden Plum and Blueberry Clafoutis

July 28, 2015 by Lisa Le 13 Comments

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I channelled my inner Julia Child with this vegan golden plum and blueberry clafoutis
A warm, vanilla custardy hug that embraces summer fruit…
I’ll pretend that she’s okay with me veganizing it.

Vegan Golden Plum and Blueberry Clafoutis | The Viet Vegan | Take any of your favourite summer fruits and make this creamy, custardy tart that's a wonderful way to wrap up a summer dinner

The first time I made this, I thought I had completely and utterly failed. In a sense, I did, but only out of impatience.

One of the most underrated skills as a cook or a baker is patience. Yes, patience is a skill.

It takes skill to know to wait before you flip a pancake or give that pan a stir. I’m still working on my patience, both in the kitchen and outside of it.
Vegan Golden Plum and Blueberry Clafoutis | The Viet Vegan | Take any of your favourite summer fruits and make this creamy, custardy tart that's a wonderful way to wrap up a summer dinner

We forget sometimes that we need to be patient with ourselves. There are days where I am so frustrated for not being patient with myself. Knowing when I’m ready, not rushing into something when all I want to do is dive head-first. When I hit a wall, I don’t think to stop and take a breath before I try again. All I want to do is reassess the situation and think myself above and over this wall, and I end up climbing over the wall instead of simply closing my eyes, taking a breath, and feeling for the doorknob. I go a million miles a minute, and it’s getting to the point where I can’t juggle everything at once like I once used to do.
Vegan Golden Plum and Blueberry Clafoutis | The Viet Vegan | Take any of your favourite summer fruits and make this creamy, custardy tart that's a wonderful way to wrap up a summer dinner

We need to remember to be kind to ourselves. To give ourselves the chance to decompress and recompose before stepping out to meet the challenge. That’s not to say that we should never just barrel through the obstacles when the going gets tough, but there’s validity in taking the slow and steady route. At this point, I can’t deny the success I’ve had with my usual approach of beating the wall down and climbing over the rubble. Sure, it was a little messy and I may have gotten a little hurt in the process, but I made it through and I’m healing nicely. A vague reference, I know. But more on that another day.

Vegan Golden Plum and Blueberry Clafoutis | The Viet Vegan | Take any of your favourite summer fruits and make this creamy, custardy tart that's a wonderful way to wrap up a summer dinner

Have you ever tried clafoutis? A typically non-vegan dish, it’s a cross between a custard and a pancake. The French have a knack for taking beautiful fruits and folding it in a golden embrace to showcase their summer bounty. Be it inside crepes, embedded in a beautiful tart, hidden in pastries, the French know how to love their fruit.

Clafoutis is more known for the use of summer cherries, but since I’m allergic, I decided to bedazzle mine with golden plums and plump blueberries instead. Since this dish needs the custard-like texture that eggs yield in desserts, I used the newest sensation in vegan baking: aquafaba.
Vegan Golden Plum and Blueberry Clafoutis | The Viet Vegan | Take any of your favourite summer fruits and make this creamy, custardy tart that's a wonderful way to wrap up a summer dinner

Aquafaba is essentially chickpea water. It could be the water from a can, or concentrated liquid from cooking dried chickpeas, but it’s a thick, almost gelatinous texture that mimics the texture of raw egg whites. Since chickpeas have been sitting in this liquid for hours to days, the proteins from the chickpeas seep into the water and has a similar protein structure to egg whites. As a result, aquafaba can be whipped up into meringue (with the help of stabilizers like acid or cream of tartar) and the world of meringue opens up to vegans.
Vegan Golden Plum and Blueberry Clafoutis | The Viet Vegan | Take any of your favourite summer fruits and make this creamy, custardy tart that's a wonderful way to wrap up a summer dinner

The trick to clafoutis is patience. The first time I made this, I was so enamoured by the scent of vanilla and baked berries that filled my apartment, all I wanted to do was dig in. When I did, I was met with a goopy, sweet mess. It was delicious in every way, but it didn’t set up like the custardy clafoutis I had seen other versions. Disappointed and sad, I let my failed clafoutis sit while I sulked for a couple hours.

Finally I came back to it, craving a spoonful of messy fruit, I was pleasantly surprised with a success! The clafoutis had set and yielded that thick, standalone texture that was creamy yet firmly holding all the fruit together. The only sad thing was that by then, I had massacred the dish and it wasn’t photograph-friendly.

The second time around, I reduced the amount of sugar drastically (I like tart fruit, so if you’re like my good friend Janelle who doesn’t deal well with tart plums, add a bit of extra sugar to cut through), whipped the aquafaba for a while to get an airy, bubbly texture, and waited until the clafoutis was just barely warm before I dug in.

Vegan Golden Plum and Blueberry Clafoutis | The Viet Vegan | Take any of your favourite summer fruits and make this creamy, custardy tart that's a wonderful way to wrap up a summer dinner

Worth the wait. A sweet dusting of icing sugar gives this dessert a romantic yet rustic feel as you serve it to your family and friends. Try using whatever fruits you’d like: peaches, apples, pears, or cherries.

Recipe adapted from Julia Child’s clafoutis recipe

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Yield: 6 servings

Vegan Golden Plum and Blueberry Clafoutis

Vegan Golden Plum and Blueberry Clafoutis | The Viet Vegan | A warm, vanilla custardy hug that embraces summer golden plums and blueberries
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup aquafaba (chickpea water)
  • 1/4 cup granulated white sugar (I actually use natural cane sugar nowadays) + 2 tbsp for sprinkling
  • 1 1/4 cup soy milk (I used Kirkland's soy milk that's already sweetened)
  • 1/2 cup all purposed unbleached flour
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  • 1 pinch salt
  • vegan butter to grease the pie pan
  • 1 cup, ripe golden plums, pitted and sliced (about 4-5 fruits)
  • 1/2 cup blueberries, washed and dried, stems removed
  • 1 heaping tbsp icing sugar for dusting.

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400ºF (205ºC).
  2. Using a blender or food processor, blitz aquafaba and sugar until the mixture is thickened and foamy, about 3 minutes. You don't want any sort of peaks, just a very fluffy and foamy mixture.
  3. Add soy milk, flour, vanilla extract, and salt and blend until incorporated.
  4. In a well-greased 9-inch pie pan, pour about 1/2 the batter into the pan, about 1/2 inch deep. Bake for 15 minutes until the edges are slightly golden and the middle is only slightly jiggly. Remove from oven and add the fruit on top of the bottom baked layer. Sprinkle remaining 2 tbsp of sugar, then pour over the remaining batter.
  5. Bake for 45 minutes until the top is lightly golden. Remove from oven and let cool until just barely warm. Do -not- cut into it before it is cooled, otherwise the clafoutis won't have set yet.
  6. Serve with a dusting of icing sugar.
© Lisa Le
Cuisine: Vegan

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Filed Under: Baking, Breakfast, Dessert, Vegan recipes Tagged With: clafoutis, fruit, julia child, summer, vegan

About Lisa Le

Lisa is the thirty-something, nerdy, procrastinating, feminist blogger and photographer behind The Viet Vegan. She loves spicy foods, noodles, and food in bowls.

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  1. June @ How to Philosophize with Cake says

    July 28, 2015 at 3:30 PM

    That looks awesome!! I have been looking for a good vegan clafoutis recipe, I will definitely save this one :) I agree, patience is hard–especially when it comes to letting baked goods cool, ugghhh…but it’s so worth it! :D

    Reply
    • Lisa Le says

      July 29, 2015 at 1:06 PM

      Thanks June =) Yes, I have burned my mouth on many piping hot chocolate chip cookies. ._.

      Reply
  2. Dianna says

    July 28, 2015 at 5:47 PM

    You are a genius! I have been wanting clafoutis but it never occurred to me it could be veganized. I’m trying it this week: thank you!

    Reply
    • Lisa Le says

      July 29, 2015 at 1:05 PM

      My world of desserts that was once closed to me has no been opened with aquafaba! Stay tuned for more =)

      Reply
  3. Maikki // Maikin mokomin says

    August 3, 2015 at 12:31 AM

    Hey, this is recipe is genius! I thought it was impossible to make vegan clafoutis but you proved me wrong! Thanks for sharing :)

    Reply
  4. Katie @ Produce On Parade says

    August 7, 2015 at 1:21 PM

    This is awesome!! I am totally making this with my rhubarb!!

    Reply
  5. Clayton Henderson says

    February 29, 2016 at 9:09 PM

    I just recently became vegan, its been easy on the basic cooking front since I went to culinary school, It’s the baking part that has been ” well I guess I wont be eating or baking that anymore” I just found about aqaufaba 2 days ago and i’m totally excited! now I can go back to baking like I use to. I printed this recipe and I can’t wait to make this. thank you so much for post this. I will become a regular on your site!

    Reply
  6. pralinesloth says

    June 18, 2016 at 10:46 PM

    ingenious! used to make Julia’s clafouti in pre-vegan days and you’re right – supposed to be served “lukewarm” which is hard to do:) I made the mistake of using a too small pan (in toaster oven), so took >1 hr to set, but finally! after it cooled we were able enjoy the yummyness. thanks much for sharing this recipe – looking forward to trying different fruit variations!

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    • Lisa Le says

      June 19, 2016 at 12:04 AM

      Glad you were able to enjoy the deliciousness =) Thanks for sharing your experience!

      Reply
  7. Emily says

    January 27, 2017 at 3:05 AM

    It says to pour 1/2 the batter into the pan, what about the other half?

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    • Emily says

      January 27, 2017 at 3:06 AM

      Ugh of coursenjnhad to read over that like 8 times before seeing the “add the rest” lol I’m sorry bout that

      Reply
  8. Lucy says

    May 30, 2017 at 1:00 AM

    Hi there, I can’t see any almond meal listed in the recipe, should there be any? If not, what is it that you sprinkle over the fruit before pouring the liquid over (fruit step is also missing from recipe). Thanks!

    Reply
    • Lisa Le says

      May 30, 2017 at 2:51 PM

      Hi Lucy! It’s not almond meal, it’s powdered sugar/icing sugar :) And the fruit step is in the second half of step 4.

      Reply

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