Chocolate Hazelnut Friands Food

CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT FRIANDS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180C (160C fan forced).
• Lightly grease 9 x 1/2 cup friand pans.
• Sift flour, cocoa powder and icing sugar into a medium bowl and stir in hazelnut meal and chocolate, make a well at centre.
• Add butter and egg white to dry ingredients, mix until well combined.
• Pour mixture evenly into prepared pans.
• Bake for 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted at centre comes out clean.
• Cool in pans for 5 minutes, transfer to a wire rack to cool.
• Serve dusted with extra icing sugar.

MINI CHOCOLATE FRIANDS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to moderate (180 degrees C/160 if fan forced). grease 2 x 12 hole mini muffin pans.
• Place egg whites in a medium bowl; whisk lightly with a fork until combined.
• Add butter, almond meal, sifted icing sugar and flour to bowl; using a wooden spoon, stir until just combined.
• Stir in the chocolate.
• Spoon tablespoons of mixture into pan holes.
• Bake friands for about 15 minutes or until lightly browned and cooked through, turn onto wire racks to cool and sprinkle with some extra icing sugar if dersired.

COCONUT AND MANGO FRIANDS

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to 350°F
• Combine castor sugar, flour, almond meal and coconut in a large mixing bowl.
• Add the egg whites and stir well with a wooden spoon.
• Add the melted butter and stir well to combine all the ingredients.
• Spoon the mixture into silicone or greased mini loaf pans so that it reaches 3/4 of the way up the side.
• Press several pieces of mango into the cake mixture in each tin. Do the same with the dried cranberries.
• Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes or until the tops are golden. Test the cake by skewering a toothpick into the center. If it comes out clean the cake is ready.
• Remove cakes from the oven and cool in pans for about 4 minutes.
• Gently turn the cakes out of the tins and cool on a wire rack.
• Sprinkle with icing sugar just before serving.
• To store, keep friands in a air-tight container for up to a week.

FRIANDS

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 200deg.
• C.
• Lightly grease 12 friand moulds.
• If friand moulds are not available, muffin tins can be used.
• Place dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl and stir to combine.
• Add egg whites and butter and stir again until the mixture is smooth.
• Spoon evenly into friand moulds and bake in the oven for about 20 minutes or until the tops have started to crack and the edges are golden brown.
• Remove from oven and allow to rest in moulds for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire cake rack to cool completely.
• Dust friands with icing sugar before serving.
• Variations: Before baking, friands can be topped with raspberries, rhubarb or blueberries.
• 2 tablespoons poppy seeds and the grated rind of 2 lemons, oranges or mandarins can be added to the dry ingredients.
• If using citrus in the mixture, a glaze of melted marmalade can be brushed on the cooked friands whilst they are cooling.
• Friands are best eaten on the day they are made.