Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF/gas mark 4. Put the brioche on to a baking tray. Sprinkle half the kirsch and lemon juice over the slices and scatter with the marzipan.
Put the cherries on top, sprinkle the rest of the lemon juice and kirsch over, then dust with the caster sugar and add the almonds.
Bake for 30 minutes. The cherries should be tender and the bread and marzipan golden. Leave to cool a little, then sift icing sugar over each piece and serve with thick cream.
You can make croûtes with apricots, peaches, nectarines and plums as well, as long as they are ripe (if the fruit is hard, the bread gets too toasted by the time it becomes tender). Plums and apricots should be halved or quartered, depending on ripeness, and peaches should be sliced. Almond liqueur can be used instead of kirsch.
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You can make croûtes with apricots, peaches, nectarines and plums as well, as long as they are ripe (if the fruit is hard, the bread gets too toasted by the time it becomes tender). Plums and apricots should be halved or quartered, depending on ripeness, and peaches should be sliced. Almond liqueur can be used instead of kirsch.
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