Cherry Financiers - small, light and moist French cakes made with almond flour and beurre noisette.
Course
Dessert
Cuisine
French
Prep Time6hours30minutes
Cook Time15minutes
Total Time6hours45minutes
Servings12
AuthorManuela Zangara
Ingredients
200gms– 1 ½ cups icing sugar
100gms– ½ cup butter
6egg whites
75gms– ½ cup almond meal
75gms– ½ cup flour
½tspbaking powder
1tspvanilla extract
500gms– 1.1 lbs. cherriespitted and chopped
Almond slivers
Instructions
Put the butter in a saucepan and melt it until brown and fragrant. Don’t burn it though or it will turn bitter!
Remove the saucepan from the fire and put it in cold water to cool it down fast.
In a bowl, sift together the flour, almond meal, baking powder and icing sugar. Mix well.
Slowly add the egg whites and stir well.
Add the melted butter and vanilla extract and mix well.
Add the cherries and mix to incorporate.
Cover the bowl with cling wrap and refrigerate it for at least 6 hours.
Divide the batter into the financiers molds (fill them up to 3/4).
Bake in a pre-heated oven at 200°C – 390°F for 10 to 15 minutes. When ready, let them cool down, then unmould them and transfer to a wire rack to cool down completely.