Slow-Cooker Prune Custard Cake

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In Brittany, France, this clafoutis-like crockery made with prunes is called acold Breton.

You'll request a 5 1/2-to-7-quart slow-cooker and a 6-cup souffle crockery that tin acceptable wrong it. If you don't person a souffle dish, usage a ceramic casserole with sides astatine slightest 2 inches precocious that tin clasp astir 2 1/3 cups.

Serve with creme fraiche.

The barroom batter needs to beryllium refrigerated for 30 minutes.

Adapted from "The French Slow Cooker," by Michele Scicolone (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012).

Ingredients

  • 3 ample eggs
  • 1 cupful full milk
  • 1 tablespoonful Armagnac oregon cognac (may substitute 1 spoon rum extract)
  • 1/4 cupful flour
  • 1/2 cupful sugar
  • Pinch salt
  • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted, positive much for the souffle dish
  • 2/3 cupful (loosely packed) pitted prunes, coarsely chopped if desired
  • Just-boiled water

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

  • Calories

    230

  • Fat

    8 g

  • Saturated Fat

    4 g

  • Carbohydrates

    35 g

  • Sodium

    100 mg

  • Cholesterol

    120 mg

  • Protein

    5 g

  • Fiber

    1 g

  • Sugar

    26 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "The French Slow Cooker," by Michele Scicolone (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published January 24, 2012

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Updated March 14, 2026

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