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Financier Recipe from the Devilled Egg Cookery School

Recipe to make Financiers from Devilled Egg online cookery school

Financier Recipe from the Devilled Egg Cookery School
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Ingredients

For the recipe:
  • 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

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. 

Method

01
Melt the butter in a pan and simmer gently until the butter has turned nutty brown, strain and leave to cool 
02
Combine the flour, sugar, nuts and coconut in a bowl 
03
Add the melted and cooled butter and rose water 
04
Mix in the egg whites 
05
Leave in the fridge for a couple of hours 
06
Preheat the oven to 180C
07
Spoon the mixture in the moulds and top with the raspberries, pushing them into the batter
08
 Bake in the preheated oven for 15-18 minutes, until cooked all the way through and golden 
09
Leave to cool slightly, remove from the tin and make another batch
10
For best results, serve warm