I have quite a few friand recipes on this blog and they are all my favourites. That is because in Australia we can never grow tired of these delicious nutty treats. If I ever need to produce a baked treat at a short notice, I always go for a friand. If you the word ‘friand’ is new to you, you might have heard of the french financiers. They are the same!

This time around, I decided to give them a ‘high tea’ look. Imagine them being served on tiers at a special occasion. So naturally I had to glam them up. All I did was coat them in white chocolate and they looked ‘high tea ready’! I used a flower cookie mold so my friands were small and thin. You could also use a regular friand mold/pan but you may need to double the recipe in that case for 12 regular sized friands.
Lemon Friands
Yields 12 small friands

70 g unsalted butter, melted
3 egg whites, lightly whisked
100 g icing sugar
30 g self raising flour
60 g almond meal
1 tbsp grated lemon zest
200 g white chocolate
yellow gel food colouring

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Grease a 12 hole flower cookie mold or 6 hole friand pan.
Place all the ingredients in a medium bowl and whisk until combined. Spoon batter into prepared pan. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until cooked through.

Remove from oven. Cool on a wire rack.
Melt white chocolate using a microwave or double boiler. Add the food colour as per desired shade. Mix till well blended.
Pipe white chocolate onto the flo...