Lemon Drizzle Friands
Serves: 12 cakes
Friands are similar to the French financiers and are made with ground almonds and egg whites for a light and fluffy cake. Recipe for Lemon Drizzle Friands with step-by-step photos.
Ingredients
For the friands
- 160 g (1 ½ sticks) unsalted butter
- 100 g (⅔ cup) plain flour, (all-purpose flour)
- 250 g (1 ⅔ cup) icing sugar, (powdered sugar)
- 125 g (1 cup) ground almonds
- 6 egg whites
- 1 lemon, zested
For the lemon icing
- 1 lemon, zested and juiced
- 225 g (1 ⅔ cup) icing sugar, (powdered sugar)
Instructions
To Make the Friands
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/355°F (without fan).
- Melt the butter in a small saucepan and use some of the butter to lightly grease the friand tin. Let the butter cool slightly for later in the recipe.
- Sift the flour and icing sugar (powdered) into a large bowl, and stir through the ground almonds.
- Place the eggwhites into another large bowl and whisk until they are white and frothy.
- Gently mix the frothy eggwhites into the flour mixture.
- Add the melted butter and zest of one lemon, and stir everything together.
- Fill the friand tin with the batter until each hole is ⅔ full. Using an ice-cream scoop will help you to evenly divide the batter.
- 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.
- Let the friands cool in the pan for about 5 minutes before removing them to a wire rack to cool completely.
To Make the Lemon Drizzle Icing
- Zest and squeeze the juice from one lemon.
- Mix the icing sugar (powdered sugar) together with enough lemon juice until you have a soft, runny consistency.
To Decorate the Friands
- Drizzle the lemon icing over each friand.
- Garnish with some lemon zest.
Kitchen Notes
- RECIPE CREDIT
Recipe adapted from Katie Quinn Davies, Delicious Magazine (Australian edition), February 2013, page 80. - OVEN TEMPERATURES
All recipes on this website state temperatures for a regular oven (i.e. a conventional oven without fan). If you have a convection oven with a fan, please consult the manufacturer's handbook on how to adjust the temperature and baking time accordingly. - CONVERSIONS
To convert from cups to grams, and vice-versa, please see this handy Conversion Chart for Basic Ingredients.