MasterClass KCMCHB88 12 Hole Friand Pan with PFOA Free Non Stick, Robust 1 mm Carbon Steel, 35.5 x 26.5 cm , Grey

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Serve them with a cup of your morning coffee or afternoon tea. Bring them to parties and picnics, or put them in a lunch box. What is a friand? Blueberry Friands are simple to make, perfect for an impromptu afternoon tea or an easy school lunchbox filler. There are 4 main steps: Top the friands with fresh berries and nuts – you can even mix and match and have different friands all in one pan. If you’re reading this recipe, you’ve probably tasted one of these moreish little cakes before, but if you are new to friands, you are in for a treat! Friands are a small, oval-shaped cake based on a French ‘Financier’. They are quite dense and buttery and usually have a little fruit, such as berries added.

Aluminium - Aluminium cake tins are lightweight, affordable and great for even cooking. Avoid acidic ingredients as this material is reactive. Lemon, almonds and vanilla: These flavours compliment blueberries beautifully. I like adding a few drops of bitter almond essence to max out the flavour. Bake the friands in the oven for 18-20 minutes, or until they are lightly golden and a skewer inserted in the middle of a friand comes out clean. If you wanted to make these friands gluten free, you could easily swap out the all-purpose flour and use almond meal entirely.I have since discovered that, because the Australian friends are baked in what is originally known as an aspic mould, you can certainly find such individual moulds in France and online. In France, financiers tend to be plain cakes which derive most of their flavour from the butter in the recipe, which is traditionally melted and browned to produce a nutty flavour. The temperature given is for a standard oven. If using the fan setting, you'll need to reduce the temperature to around 160-170° C fan-forced. Cooking time may vary. Yes, definitely you can. Just thaw the lemon curd in the refrigerator the night before using the lemon curd in your favourite dessert recipes using lemon curd like lemon curd tarts or lemon curd tartlets.

In Australia, where aspic moulds have sensibly been recycled as bakeware, you can find a 6 or 12-hole friand pan wherever cake andmuffin tins are sold.Well, of course, you can directly jump to the recipe if you are not interested in reading all this. Butter. Unsalted butter is the best choice here. You can sub for melted coconut oil if you need your friands to be dairy-free.

If you live outside of France and Australia, your best bet forfinding a friand mould is on the internet (see links below). And of course, if you do not find these special tins in the store then definitely you can use a muffin tray to make these Lemon Friands.Aspic moulds are intended to be used for oeufs en gelée, or eggs in aspic. In France, they are sold in individual oval-shaped moulds which have either a star or diamond embossed at the bottom, but you can also find plain ones. Whilst my husband may have rolled his eyes with the addition of yet another baking tin to my bulging collection, he later declared these Lemon Friands to be the best lemon cake he had ever eaten. A big compliment from a man who rarely gives compliments. Many thanks to you, Shez! (P.S. I still owe you!!) How to Make Friands For my variation, I used individual brioche tins because I thought the fluted edges would give the cakes a beautiful shape. And they did!

Honestly, the basic friand recipe that I have shared today makes only 6 Friands. So I have never really felt the need to freeze the leftovers nor I have ever made a big batch. Nuts: Replace almond flour with ground pistachios, pecans, or hazelnut meal and sprinkle unbaked friands with flaked almonds or coarsely chopped pistachios, pecans, or hazelnuts. These little cakes are sweet and moist and are super rich due to the addition of ground almond meal. Once you try a friand, you won’t be able to stop making them! Here are some other friand recipes you might like:

Different types of cake tin shapes and designs available

This strawberry lemon friands recipe yields delicate little almond cakes that are super easy to make and even easier to eat! And if you’re someone who’s gluten sensitive, then you can easily turn these into gluten free friands by using only almond meal in the recipe. What are friands? In France, there is no particular mould for a friand, something which I discovered the hard way when I went in search of one. The mere elusiveness of this friand tin suddenly made me want one desperately, even if I hadn’t baked a friand in nearly a decade.