Wednesday 29 September 2010

Almond Financiers

I made these as a gift the night before I left Switzerland, all those days ago. After waiting for my internet to be installed back in Oxford I've now got a nasty bug that's slowing me down. I have lots of work to do but all I want to do is curl up on the sofa with a hot water bottle and a cheesy film. That's the reason you've only seen little non-recipe posts in the past few days. 

These are great - tiny, tasty and I can persuade myself they're healthy. I made eight little ones in my mini muffin tin and then boxed them up. 

Plus they have brown butter. That can only be a good thing. 

I found this recipe in a wonderful little French pastry book I found in the post office in Verbier. I couldn't believe I'd found a gem in such an unlikely place! I scaled the recipe down - you need a pair of electric scales for this. 


Almond Financiers
(adapted from Mini Pâtisseries Maison' by Orathay Souksisavanh and Vania Nikolcic)

1 egg white (about 33g)
38g icing sugar
33g unsalted butter
13g ground almonds
13g plain flour
1/2 tsp vanilla paste
8 whole almonds

Preheat the oven to 210C. In a small saucepan, brown the butter until the foam subsides and you have dark specks. Put in the fridge while you do the rest. Sieve the flour, almonds and icing sugar into a bowl.  Add the egg white and vanilla and beat until smooth. Add the brown butter and beat to combine. Pour into moulds/tin and top each one with an almond. Bake for 10 -12 minutes until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack. 

(Makes 8)

8 comments:

  1. OMG, I'm totally Gonna bake these!!!!!!!!

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  2. sorry to hear you're not feeling well! get better soon!

    brown butter = yum.

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  3. I love financiers - the brown butter, the almonds... Yours turned out so pretty.
    Hope you feel better soon.

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  4. these look delicious! almonds are so good. :)

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  5. Please provide a guideline as to the size of the tins/molds. Thanks.

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  6. Anon - I made these in a mini muffin tin, which is about 4cm or so across.

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  7. Thank you for the quick response.

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