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Friands and Financiers
Friands just have to be the easiest little cakes in the world to make! You just whack everything into a bowl and stir. Great for children helping in the kitchen, as there are no electric beaters for little fingers to get stuck in, and super quick so no loss of interest for those short attention spans. A Financier is a traditional French, light and moist, sponge cake. Its name has two possible beginnings. One is that it looks like a little bar of gold, and the other is that it became popular in the financial district of Paris surrounding the Paris Stock Exchange. Ingredients
- • 1 cup almond meal
- • 1 ½ cups icing sugar
- • ½ cup plain flour
- • Pinch of salt
- • 5 egg whites (no need to whisk!!)
- • 180g melted butter
Directions
- • Simply mix all of the ingredients together
- • Then, ¾ fill a greased 12 hole friand mould tray (or small muffin moulds) and bake in a pre-heated oven at 165oC for 30 mins.
- • Remove friands from moulds to cool on a cake rack, and when cool dust lightly with icing sugar.
- To make financiers...using exactly the same ingredient list as the Friand recipe above
- • Wisk the egg whites to stiff peaks.
- • Add the dry ingredients and mix well
- • Add the melted butter, mix again and pour into rectangular 5 x 10cm well buttered Financier shaped moulds. This will make about 15 financiers
- • Cook in a 230oC preheated oven for 10 mins then reduce the heat to 195oC for 5 mins. Turn off the oven and leave them there for another 10 mins to finish cooking. Alternatively they can be baked at 200oC for 20 mins which will result in a slightly different textured cake.
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