My Friend the Friand

"The friand is a small, moist, dense, rich almondy cake. It is truly awesome. I can never stop at just one. I like to eat it fresh out of the oven, with a tablespoon of fresh cream. Wonderful. If you feel like a treat, add some fresh strawberries with the cream :). From Simple Food by Jill Dupleix"
 
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Ready In:
33mins
Ingredients:
7
Yields:
10 small cakes
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ingredients

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directions

  • Heat oven to 200 degrees C.
  • Melt butter and allow it to cool.
  • Use 1 tablespoon to coat 10 muffin tin moulds or individual oval baking moulds measuring 5 x 10 cm.
  • Sift icing sugar and flour into bowl, mix in the ground almonds.
  • Lightly beat egg whites with a fork, fold them into dry ingredients.
  • Add cooled, melted butter and orange rind, mix well.
  • Three quarters fill each mould with mixture and bake on the middle shelf of oven for 10 minutes.
  • Turn tray around, and bake for another 5- 10 minutes, till tops are golden, and springy to the touch.
  • Leave in the tins for 5 minutes, then gently unmould onto a wire tray and leave to cool.
  • Dust the friands with icing sugar to serve.

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Reviews

  1. Bless you , KitchenManiac! I was introduced to friand at the Le Panier French Bakery at the Pike Place Market in Seattle. I've been searching unsuccessfully for a recipe ever since. These wonderful little dense cakes are superb, and just like the ones from the bakery! For those of you in American kitchens, I baked these at 375 F in my convection oven. My tins are clearly smaller- I used a shallow jam tart pan and miniature muffin tins. Both took about a tablespoon of batter per well and baked in about 10 minutes total.
     
  2. I was not sure what to expect, but these were AWESOME! Like marzipan muffins,
     
  3. Yum! I couldn't believe how easy and scrumptious this recipe was. I have everyone asking me for the recipe! I used those flexible silicone muffin moulds, and made sure I let them sit for 5 minutes before taking out.
     
  4. I too tasted these at a cafe and thought they were absolutely fantastic. This recipie is very close to the real thing...if I try again I'll try just a little butter. Fantastic recipie Thanks
     
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