Saturday, September 6, 2014

Friands | French Mini Cake

Friands are mini French cakes. They are small & tempting little cakes, which just melts in your mouth. The basic recipe requires almond flour but when I saw the recipe with pecan & coconut flour, I decided giving it a try as I love coconut & my hubby likes pecans. 
Friands are generally backed in a Friand pan, which are sold in the market, but I went a head using a mini cake pan in making this cakes. Topping them with raspberries added a tangy bite to the cake.
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Adapted from here.
Prep Time-20mins | Cook Time-20mins | Yields-9Friands
Ingredients
65g or 2/3Cup pecans
20g or 1/2Cup desiccated dry coconut
4Egg whites
1Cup icing sugar
1/2Cup flour
120g / 1/2Cup butter @room temperature
1/2Cup frozen raspberries
1Tbs icing sugar for dusting
2Tbs flour for dusting
1Tbs butter for brushing the pan
Directions 
- Pre heat oven @350degree. Butter the muffin pan or a mini cake pan or Friand pan if you have. Dust it with flour & keep aside.
- Grind pecans & coconut to a smooth flour. 
- In another bowl light whisk eggs & keep aside.
- In a large bowl mix pecan & coconut flour, egg white, butter, sugar & flour. 
- Mix them well till they are blended well. 
- Scoop up the batter & fill in the pan wholes to the top.
- Now top the batter with raspberries. 
- Bake @350degrees for 15mins to 20mins or until the tooth picks comes out clean.
- Once they are done, remove them from oven & cool them down on a counter top.
- Dust Friands with icing sugar & serve them warm. 
Note
- You can replace pecan & coconut flour with almond flour. 
- Raspberries can be replaced by blueberries, strawberries or any other fruit you like. 
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19 comments:

  1. I just want to pic on off the screen..they look so good...perfectly baked...and drool worthy

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  2. Nice variation of these cakes. They look great with the raspberry on top

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  3. Mini French cakes are cute and inviting. Nice recipe for France.

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  4. wow you just nailed those friands , they look fabulous dear :) I would love to grab now from the screen, perfectly baked and presented :)

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  5. Frians rocks, i can have a couple of this cuties rite now.

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  6. They look so good! Love your bowl :)

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  10. They look fabulous. Have come out nice and fluffy.

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  11. Wow, those mini cakes look so soft and delicious.

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  12. I have had the almond flour version - love this adaptation

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  13. Wow awesome, but for those egg whites I would have picked that bowl from the screen and gobbled them all up...the eggs have saved this post:))

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    1. Thank God Vaishali I would have been facing an empty screen then.

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  14. Ohhh they look very cute! ! Those topped raspberries makes it even more tempting! !

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  15. Like i said thank God for the eggs! Tell me do you bake @ 350F ? I suppose so but just confirming.

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