Recipe: Financier

Name: Financier
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Ingredients: Recipe for 20 financier biscuits :5 Egg whites; 250g (8.75 oz) Icing sugar; 170g (6 oz) butter; 140g (5 oz) ground almond; 60g (2.1 oz) sifted strong flour

By chef patrick Asfaux 4.8/5 (58 reviews) · 🍳 39 made it

Prep 10 min

Cook 15 min

Total 25 min

Ingredients

Recipe for 20 financier biscuits :

5 Egg whites
250g (8.75 oz) Icing sugar
170g (6 oz) butter
140g (5 oz) ground almond
60g (2.1 oz) sifted strong flour

Step-by-step directions

1 Start your oven at 240'C (464'F)

2 Melt the butter to melt until golden brown.

3 Meanwhile, take a bowl and mix the sugar, ground almond and flour together.

4 Add the egg whites to the dry ingredients and give it a good stir. Then, incorporate the melted butter to the mix.

5 Fill some non-stick square moulds half way up and bake for 5 minutes. Then, decrease the temperature to 200'C (392'F) and keep cooking your financier for another 5 minutes. Finally, turn off the oven and leave your biscuits for another 5 minutes.

6 Take your biscuit out their moulds while still hot. When cold, store them in a biscuit tin where they will keep for a week.

This recipe is very simple but make sure to keep a good eye on the cooking time as it is essential to make this recipe a success.