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!!!

When Food Unites Us To One

A blog of three Australian university students, all bought together by the love and passion for food of different cuisines and times, from all around the world, but eaten and experienced in Sydney.

This blog will follow us on an adventure as we share recipes, stories and foods from anywhere in Sydney that have made us melt on the inside, and perhaps drool on the outside.

As food is such a vital aspect of our lives, it is incorporated in a huge aspect of socialising, being social beings. This consequently invites us to broader our palettes and experience new foods and tastes of all colours, textures and countries, which will be shared with you.

So here is to the first thought for this blog, which will be the basis of our posts and new journey we start:

"Chefs, authors, musicians, actors, poets, so many of us have very strong feelings about food.  Why is food so emotional?  Scents of food stir up childhood memories, cooking for and feeding someone is one of the sweetest gestures in the world, even watching someone eat can be a delight.  Food and love are undeniably connected."

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