Lemon Friands With Lemon Curd Basic Friands Food

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.

BLUEBERRY & LEMON FRIANDS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to fan 180C/conventional 200C/gas 6. Generously butter six non-stick friand or muffin tins. Melt the butter and set aside to cool.
• Sift the icing sugar and flour into a bowl. Add the almonds and mix everything between your fingers.
• Whisk the egg whites in another bowl until they form a light, floppy foam. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients, tip in the egg whites and lemon rind, then lightly stir in the butter to form a soft batter.
• Divide the batter among the tins, a large serving spoon is perfect for this job. Sprinkle a handful of blueberries over each cake and bake for 15-20 minutes until just firm to the touch and golden brown.
• Cool in the tins for 5 minutes, then turn out and cool on a wire rack. To serve, dust lightly with icing sugar.