Best My Friend The Friand Recipes

LEMON FRIANDS WITH LEMON CURD | BASIC FRIANDS RECIPE

Steps:

• Whisk together the juice, eggs and sugar in the pot until warm to touch.
• Once the egg mixture is warm, add the chopped butter little by little whisking continuously and heat whilst whisking gently but continuously until thickened. (Check my video recipe for the tip)
• Pass through a fine sieve.
• And refrigerate the lemon curd until ready to use.
• Melt butter and set aside to cool slightly.
• Mix icing sugar, salt, flour, zest and almonds together in a bowl.
• In another bowl, whisk egg whites to a soft meringue.
• Now that all three elements are ready, fold in butter and vanilla essence into the dry ingredient mix followed by the egg whites (check the video for the correct way of folding) and pipe evenly into greased moulds.
• Bake at 180°C between 18 to 25 mins.
• Once baked, let it sit in the tin for 3 mins and then turn over to release them. And when they are cooled completely finish off with some lemon curd on top.

SUPER EASY ALMOND FRIAND

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Preheat oven to 350 F. Sift flour into a large bowl.
• Add sugar and ground almonds and stir well.
• In a separate bowl, whisk egg whites until foamy and light-but not firm peaks (you are not making meringues).
• Add egg whites to dry ingredients, add butter, and gently stir everything together until you have thick batter.
• Place 6 small, lightly greased loaf tins (they should hold about half a cup of liquid) onto a baking sheet. Using a dessert spoon, fill 3/4 of each tin with batter. Clean up any spillages or batter on the cake tin rim or sides.
• Cook in center of oven for 15 to 20 minutes, or until risen and golden brown; when center is pierced with a toothpick, it should come out clean.
• Leave cakes in tins for 5 minutes, then remove and leave to cool on a wire cooling rack.
• Once cooled, dust with icing sugar, if using.

MY FRIEND THE FRIAND

Steps:

• 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.

RASPBERRY AND PISTACHIO FRIANDS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F/180°C/160°C fan/gas 4. Melt the butter in a small pan, then remove from the heat and leave to cool a little. Grease eight holes of the friand (or muffin) tin with a little bit of butter.
• Blitz 85g (2/3 cup) of the pistachio nuts in a food processor with the confectioners' sugar until very finely chopped. Tip into a bowl with the ground almonds and flour and mix together. Roughly chop the remaining pistachio nuts and set aside.
• Froth the egg whites lightly with a fork, then pour into the nuts and flour mixture with the melted butter and mix well.
• Pour the mixture into the friand tin holes, add a few raspberries to each one, then scatter with the chopped pistachios. Bake for 20-25 minutes until the friands are risen and springy to the touch and a skewer inserted comes out clean.
• Serve warm or at room temperature. Dust with a little confectioners' sugar if you like. They should be light and chewy!
• Twist:
• Pecan Pie Friands: Make the friand recipe above, swapping pistachios for 100g (1 cup) pecans and the raspberries for 75g (2.6 oz) chewy toffee, chopped into small pieces. Sprinkle the toffee over the friand batter before baking.