Chocolate Financier Batter

Name: Chocolate Financier Batter
Yield: Makes about 18 (1½-oz./40-g) financiers
Ingredients: 2 ¼ cups (6 ¾ oz./190 g) blanched* ground almonds; 1 generous cup (5 ½ oz./150 g) confectioners’ sugar; 1 tablespoon (⅓ oz./10 g) cornstarch; 1 ½ tablespoons (⅓ oz./10 g) cocoa powder, unsweetened; 9 egg whites; ⅓ cup (75 ml) whipping cream; 1 ¾ oz. (50 g) bittersweet chocolate, 60 percent cocoa; 1 ¾ oz. (50 g) bittersweet chocolate, 60 percent cocoa

Preparation info

Makes about
18
1½ oz. 40 -g )

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Encyclopedia of Chocolate

By Frédéric Bau and École du Grand Chocolat Valrhona

Published 2017

About

This batter includes not whole eggs, but the whites only. It is this, together with the ground almonds, which gives this preparation its characteristic light, soft texture.

Ingredients

2 ¼ cups (6 ¾ oz./190 g) blanched* ground almonds

Vegetarian
Cake
Gluten-free
Microwave

Method

Butter the molds, unless you are using silicone ones.

Combine the ground almonds, confectioners’ sugar, cornstarch, and cocoa powder in a mixing bowl (1, 2). Lightly beat the egg whites with a fork to liquefy them. Combine the egg whites and whipping cream with the dry ingredients until just mixed. Set aside the batter.