Financiers

Name: Financiers
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 100g butter, cooked to nut-brown (beurre noisette); 60g ground almonds; 110g icing sugar; 40g plain flour; 3 egg whites; Raspberries (optional)

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Also known as: Financier, French Almond Cakes, Friands

About this dish

Small, moist almond cakes made with brown butter and egg whites, crisp at the edges and baked in bar-shaped moulds.

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Ingredients

🧈100g butter, cooked to nut-brown (beurre noisette)

🌰60g ground almonds

🍚110g icing sugar

🌾40g plain flour

🥚3 egg whites

🍓Raspberries (optional)

Method

Serves 2

Cook the butter until golden brown and nutty, then strain and cool slightly.

Mix the almonds, icing sugar and flour.

Stir in the egg whites, then the brown butter, until smooth.

Pour into buttered moulds and add a raspberry if you like.

Bake at 200°C (400°F) for 12–15 minutes until golden at the edges.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Financiers were popularised near the Paris stock exchange in the 1890s; their gold-bar shape suited bankers on the go.

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