CAKE - Lemon Pistachio Friands

By Aemelia

Ingredients

• 190 g unsalted butter
• 60 g all purpose flour
• 200 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
• 60 g almond meal (ground almonds)
• 60 g unsalted pistachios, finely ground
• 5 egg whites
• grated zest of 2 lemons

Details

Servings 12
Adapted from technicolorkitcheninenglish.blogspot.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F. Melt butter and use a little to grease a 12-hole friand pan. Dust with a little flour, shaking out excess.
Sift the flour and sugar into a large bowl, then stir in the almond meal and the ground pistachios.
Place egg whites in a small bowl and lightly froth with a fork. Add to dry ingredients with melted butter and zest, stirring until completely combined. Fill each friand hole two-thirds full. Bake for 25-35 minutes until golden and a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Remove from the oven, leave in the pan for 5 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely. Dust with icing sugar just before serving.

The friands will keep for 2-3 days in an airtight container.

Makes 12 – I halved the recipe above and got 9 friands, 6 using 3-tablespoon capacity star shaped pans + 3 using 1/3-cup (80ml) capacity muffiin pans