How to Bake Almonds and Blueberry Friands

Yields: 6

Preparation time: 20 mins

Cooking time: 20 mins

Ingredients needed to make Almonds and Blueberry Friands:

For the friands:

• 3 ½ oz ground almonds
• 6 fresh blueberries
• 2 eggs
• 3 ½ oz self-raising flour
• 3 ½ oz unsalted butter, plus more for greasing

For the drizzle:

• 3 tbsp clear honey
• Juice of 1 orange

Cooking instructions for Almonds and Blueberry Friands:

• Warm up your oven to 400 degrees F and grease each cup of a 6-well muffin pan with a small knob of butter.
• Place the ground almonds, flour, sugar as well as butter into a food processor and crack the eggs into it.
• Blitz them into a thick batter, free of lumps and ladle equal amounts of it into the greased wells.
• Place the pan into the oven and bake the friands for 12 minutes or until they are just golden.
• Take them out of the oven and place a blueberry on top of each friend.
• Pop them back into the oven and bake for 5 more minutes or until they puff up and turn golden brown.
• Take them out of the oven and set aside for 5-10 minutes.
• To make the drizzle, pour the orange juice into a pan and stir in a splash of honey until mixed properly.
• Heat it over slow flame, while stirring from time to time, until heated through.
• Remove the muffins or friands from the pan and arrange them onto a large serving platter.
• Drizzle the heated mixture over the friands and set aside until it sets.
• Serve and munch away!

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Last Updated on May 26, 2013 by