My Friend the Friand

Name: My Friend the Friand
Yield: Makes 10
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: 60 g plain flour, sifted; 5 large free-range egg whites; 200 g icing sugar; 180 g butter (preferably unsalted); 1 tsp grated lemon or orange rind; 120 g ground almonds; icing sugar for dusting

Preparation info

Makes
10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simple Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 2002

About

The friand is a truly awesome small, moist, dense, rich, almondy cake. It’s very, very French, and very, very chic.

Ingredients

180 g butter (preferably unsalted)
200 g icing sugar
60

Europe
France
Dessert
Cake
Vegetarian
Mediterranean

Method

Heat the oven to 200°C/Gas 6. Melt the butter and allow to cool, then use 1 tbsp to coat 10 muffin tin moulds or individual oval baking moulds measuring 5x 10cm.

Sift the icing sugar and flour into a bowl, and mix in the ground almonds. Lightly beat the egg whites with a fork, then fold them into the dry ingredients. Add the cooled, melted butter and lemon rind, and mix well.