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These friands are easy to make, delicate, delicious and make a perfect afternoon treat with friends. A friand is a small tea cake, similar to the French financier, that are traditionally made with almonds only and browned butter, while friands made with just melted butter and can be flavoured with fruits, and other ingredients. If you don't have oval friand baking pan, by all means use the regular muffin pan.

You can't really see the green colour in those friands as I used ground hazelnuts. Try almond meal from skinless, blanched almonds if you want green colour from the garden peas to stand out. Lemon syrup can be made a week ahead and stored in a jar in the fridge. FriandsLemon Honey Syrup

120 g Frozen green peas
5 Large egg whites
180 g Hazelnuts, finely ground
80 g Plain flour
150 g Powdered sugar
A large pinch of fine sea salt
180 g Unsalted butter, melted and cooled
Mint leaves, shredded

90 g Honey
50 ml Lemon juice, strained
40 ml Water

In a small saucepan, combine the honey, lemon juice and water. Cook over medium heat stirring occasionally until boiling. Continue to boil until the mixture is reduced to a third. Cool.
Cook peas in a small saucepan of boiling water for 1 minute or until they rise to the surface. Drain immediately. Refresh with cold water and drain again. Blend until smooth.
Beat egg whites in a large bowl until soft pea...