This recipe for Financiers, a small almond cake, originally from France, comes from the wonderful Devilled Egg online cookery school.
Makes 40
If you are using silicone moulds, no need to prep them in any way. If you are using anything else, brush the moulds with melted butter and dust with a little flour, keep in the fridge until needed.
Financier Recipe from the Devilled Egg Cookery School
Recipe to make Financiers from Devilled Egg online cookery school
Ingredients
| 50g | Unsalted Butter |
| 50g | Plain Flour |
| 100g | ground almonds |
| 50g | desiccated coconut |
| 1/2 tablespoon | Rose Water |
| 20g | roughly chopped pistachios |
| 150g | icing sugar |
| 5 | egg whites |
Method
- Melt the butter in a pan and simmer gently until the butter has turned nutty brown, strain and leave to cool
- Combine the flour, sugar, nuts and coconut in a bowl
- Add the melted and cooled butter and rose water
- Mix in the egg whites
- Leave in the fridge for a couple of hours
- Preheat the oven to 180C
- Spoon the mixture in the moulds and top with the raspberries, pushing them into the batter
- Bake in the preheated oven for 15-18 minutes, until cooked all the way through and golden
- Leave to cool slightly, remove from the tin and make another batch
- For best results, serve warm
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