🧁 Financiers
Financiers are small French almond cakes baked in rectangular moulds. The batter is made from ground almonds, sugar, egg whites and melted butter, which gives a crisp golden edge and a moist, nutty crumb inside. They are sold in French pastry shops and served with coffee or tea, usually two or three small cakes at a time.
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Recipe
Ingredients
- 100 g ground almonds
- 130 g sugar
- 4 egg whites (about 120 g)
- 100 g butter
- A pinch of salt
Method
- Heat the oven to 200 °C and butter a financier or mini-muffin tray lightly.
- Melt the butter in a small pan and cook it until it smells nutty and turns light brown; let it cool slightly.
- Mix the ground almonds, sugar and salt, then stir in the egg whites until smooth.
- Stir in the warm butter, fill the moulds about three-quarters full.
- Bake for 12–14 minutes until the edges are golden; cool for 5 minutes before turning out.
How to make it lighter
- One small financier is a full dessert portion — pair it with an unsweetened coffee.
- Bake in mini moulds so each cake is smaller.
- Cut the sugar by a quarter; the browned butter keeps the flavour rich.
History
Financiers are usually credited to a Paris pastry cook working near the stock exchange in the late 19th century, and the gold-bar shape is said to explain the name. Earlier, similar almond cakes were made by nuns and known as visitandines.
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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →