Clafoutis aux Cerises (Cherry Clafoutis) vs Frankfurter Kranz (Frankfurt Crown Cake)

Both desserts use cherries, eggs, milk and butter, but treat them very differently. The clafoutis is a warm, simple bake: fresh pitted cherries sit under a thin, pancake-like batter of eggs, sugar, milk and cream that puffs, turns golden at the edges and sets tender in the center, finished with a dusting of powdered sugar. The Frankfurter Kranz is a chilled, layered ring cake where butter dominates in a silky buttercream, layered with jam and coated in crunchy caramelized almond brittle, with glacé cherries only as decoration.