MY FRIEND THE FRIAND

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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

Provided by KitchenManiac

Categories     Dessert

Time 33m

Yield 10 small cakes

Number Of Ingredients 7

180 g butter (preferably unsalted)
200 g icing sugar
60 g plain flour, sifted
120 g ground almonds
5 large egg whites
1 teaspoon grated fresh lemon rind or 1 teaspoon orange rind (i prefer orange)
icing sugar, for dusting

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.

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