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Blueberry Friands
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Blueberry Friands
Servings: 12
: 285 kcal
Author: Just Jo
Ingredients
  • 250 ml egg whites
  • 250 g blueberry flavoured icing sugar or just plain icing sugar
  • 125 g ground almonds
  • 100 g plain flour
  • ½ tsp lemon extract or zest of half a lemon
  • 160 g butter melted
  • 200 g frozen or fresh blueberries don’t thaw frozen ones
  • *= I use Two Chicks pasteurised egg whites for friands as you need a lot and they are excellent quality. You can substitute 6 large egg whites if you wish. One carton will make two batches of these delicious friands.
Instructions
  1. Grease your friand tin with soft butter and preheat the oven to 180°C.
  2. Whisk together the icing sugar, flour, lemon extract or zest and almonds in a big bowl.
  3. Whisk your egg whites until frothy – you don’t need soft peaks or anything like that.
  4. Fold the eggs into the dry ingredients.
  5. Fold in the melted butter and about ¾ of the berries – ensure the butter is just incorporated before spooning into your prepared tin.
  6. Stud the extra berries on top of your berries, two or three per cake.
  7. Bake for 25-30 minutes until risen, browned and a skewer comes out clean from the centre of a friand, avoiding the berries.
  8. Cool in the tin for 10-15 minutes then remove to sit on a rack to cool. They will be a little more fragile due to the soft fruits compared to other friand recipes on this blog. I use a small flexible plastic knife to ease them out of their moulds.
  9. Note – you may use a muffin pan instead of a friand tin but you’ll probably have more mixture than you need to make twelve.