My mum's favourite sweet is friands. I can live with that. As a Mother's Day treat, I came up with this version. I'm pretty pleased with how these turned out. They're fragrant, sweet, moist and altogether delectable. They're filled with little surprises in the form of dark chocolate chips and succulent dark cherries. They look good and decadent. Actually, I'm surprised I had anything left to photograph. And on that note, one half of the team was missing, so I definitely DON'T rate my photo on this occasion. But you get the point. It's a friand.
Ingredients
1/2 cup plain flour
1/2 cup good quality cocoa
1 1/4 cups icing sugar
1 cup (100g) almond meal
100g dark chocolate, chopped
5 egg whites
180g butter, melted
425g can pitted cherries, drained and halved
Extra melted butter for greasing tins
1 tsp vanilla essence
Preheat oven to 200ºC. Brush a dozen friand moulds with melted butter.
Sift the flour, icing sugar and cocoa into a large bowl. Stir in the almond meal and chocolate, followed by the cherries. In a different bowl, whisk the eggs until they're frothy. You can do this with a whisk or a fork. Then fold it through the dry ingredients. Next, stir in the vanilla and melted butter until just combined. Be a bit gentle.
Spoon the mix into the moulds. Bake for about 20 minutes or until the friands rise a bit and spring back to the touch. When you pull them out of the oven, let them cool for about five minutes before you try removing them from the moulds. You might need to very gently and gingerly run a knife around the edge of each mould. Serve however you like, warm or cold.
1 comment:
Hey, don't see yourself short - the pic looks good, and considering done with a point n shoot, and halogen workshop lamps, I think you've done brilliantly!
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