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Grease your friand tin with soft butter and preheat the oven to 180°C.
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Whisk together the icing sugar, flour, zest and almonds in a big bowl.
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Whisk your egg whites until frothy – you don’t need soft peaks or anything like that.
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Fold the eggs into the dry ingredients.
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Fold in the melted butter and about half of the berries – ensure the butter is just incorporated before spooning into your prepared tin.
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Stud the extra berries on top of your berries, two or three per cake.
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Scoop into your prepared pan and bake for 25-30 minutes until risen, browned and a skewer comes out clean from the centre of a friand.
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Cool in the tin for 10 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.
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Make the topping by mixing the icing sugar and enough orange juice to make a thick but pourable paste that just about runs off your spoon. Drizzle over the cooled cakes with a fork to get nice zig zagging lines.
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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.