Friands (Financiers) with Almonds

With a cup of tea or coffee!

Financiers (friands) with Almonds
Source: Basic Patisserie

Ingredients:
- 120 gr broyage*
- 100 gr powdered sugar
- 40 gr flour, sifted
- 100 gr butter, melted until it cookes
- 120 gr egg whites (4 eggs)
- vanilla

* Almond broyage is a 50/50 mixture of ground almonds and powdered sugar. You can buy this in bakery shops or make it by yourself by mixing 50% of each ingredient. Easy!

Method:
Preheat oven to 400°F/200°C. Brush melted butter over a muffin tin.
Whisk the egg whites till firm and stiff.
Sift the flour and icing sugar together and stir in the ground almond and vanilla.
Mix the hot melted butter quickly into the almond mixture until well combined.
Fold the egg whites gently into the mixture.
Half fill the muffin tins and top each friand with a few flaked almonds.
Bake for 12-15 min or until cooked when tested with a skewer.
Cool on a wire rack.

Enjoy!