Almond Friands Recipe

It's the only dish I will miss after dinner. As my 'families' (overseas friends) love it, as we discovered this recipe together whilst trying to make it one weekend. You have to love it especially when it's your own creation!

Ingredients:

 1 1/2 cups sugar

 1 cup plain flour

 1 cup almond meal

 5 eggwhites

 melted butter

 1 tsp vanilla extract

 flaked almonds

Method:

STEP 1	Preheat oven to 180 . Grease eight 1/2-cup (125ml) capacity friand or muffin pans and place on an oven tray.
STEP 2	Combine icing sugar, flour and almond meal in a medium bowl. Add eggwhites, butter and vanilla; stir until just combined. Spoon among pans. Sprinkle with almonds.
STEP 3	Bake for 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centres comes out clean. Set aside for 5 minutes; turn onto a wire rack.
STEP 4	To make syrup, use a small, sharp knife to scrape seeds from vanilla bean and place in a medium saucepan. Add bean and sugar; stir to combine and break up seeds. Add water and place over lowheat. Cook, stirring, for 2-3 minutes or until sugar dissolves. Increase heat to high and bring to the boil. Cook, without stirring, for 3-5 minutes or until syrup thickens slightly. Remove from heat. Pour hot syrup over friands. Set aside to cool.

WOW~That's it! We finished! As I am most definitely not the best chef, my friends helped me finish it and they provided the script for the recipe (as I am hopeless at this stuff also!).


Hope everyones enjoy it and checks it out for themselves!!!