Fika

Posted on November 18th, 2011 by Tonia 4 Comments

…The Swedish word for time spent drinking coffee with something sweet.

Don’t mind if I do.

Flognarde, also known as clafoutis, is a traditional French dessert made of sweet batter poured over a layer of apple or pear chunks and baked in the oven. You can eat this dish as a hot pudding or a cold dessert.

Ingredients {serves 6}:
3 apples
3 large eggs
1 ½ cups {350 ml} milk
½ cup {90 g} sugar
½ cup + 1 tbsp {70 g} flour
2 tbsp vegetable oil {or any neutral oil}

Preheat the oven to 400ºF {200ºC}. Peel and core the apples then cut into chunks.

Grease the tart tin with butter and sprinkle some flour. Place it on a baking sheet. Spread the apple chunks evenly in the tart tin.

Gently heat the milk until warm. In a mixing bowl, whisk the eggs until blended and foamy. Add the sugar, flour, oil and whisk until smooth. Gradually whisk in the warm milk.

Using a ladle, carefully pour the liquid batter over the apple chunks in the tin, filling up to the rim.

Bake for 30 – 45 minutes until the flognarde is puffed and golden.

Make time for “fika” with someone you love this weekend.

4 Comments

  1. Devin says:

    oh my gosh, this looks fabulous. I love that there is a word for this specific event! I might have to try this recipe!

  2. Tonia says:

    It was sooo easy and good, Devin! We ate it for breakfast…the whole thing…all six servings…just Mike and me. (urp)

  3. Sister Laura says:

    When I was in college, by four roommates and I were so busy we rarely had times when we were ALL together. A few of us are Swedish and so… every Sunday we made a point to have Fika! Great memories! We still reminisce about it today and how it was so nice to have time set aside to catch up on the week with our best friends and eat sweets! (Either that, or we would use the time to complain to each other about not getting our “chores” done which was what sometimes happened- haha)

  4. Megan says:

    We made this last night – beautiful! Thank you for sharing.

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