Yours Australia — Issue 97 2017

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Black cherry

friands

aMAKES 9 • PREP
15 MINS • COOK 25 MINS

• 11 / 3 cups icing sugar, sifted


• 1 cup almond meal


• ²/³cupplain flour, sifted


• 5 eggwhites,lightly
  whisked (see tip)


• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract


• 185g butter,melted


• 18 fresh pitted fresh cherries
  or400g can pitted black
  cherries, drained

1

Preheat oven to moderate,
180°C. Lightly grease
9 recesses of a friand pan.

2

In a large bowl, combine
icing sugar, almond meal
and flour. Mix in eggwhites
and vanilla. Pour in melted
butter, discarding white solids
in base of saucepan. Stir
mixture until well combined.

3

Spoon mixture evenly
into recesses. Press
2 cherries into each friand.
Bake for 20-25 minutes,
until golden and cooked
when tested.

4

Cool in pans for
5 minutes before turning
onto a wire rack to cool
completely. Store in an
airtight container. Dust
with icing sugar to serve.

• 2 cups plain flour
  -^1 / 3 cup pure icing sugar


• 2 tablespoons rice flour


• 250g butter,cubed (see tip)


• 60g dark chocolate,melted


• ½ cup flaked almonds

1

Preheat oven to moderately slow,

160°C. Line 2 oven trays with

baking paper.

2

Sift flour, icing sugar and rice flour

together into a bowl.

3

Rub in butter using fingertips,

until mixture resembles

breadcrumbs. Add chocolate. Press

mixture together to form a firm dough.

Wrap in plastic wrap and chill in

freezer for 10 minutes.

4

Turn out onto a lightly floured

surface. Knead gently. Roll heaped

tablespoons of mixture into sausage

shapes. Form into horseshoe shapes.

Arrange on trays. Press almonds

onto biscuits.

5

Bake for 15-20 minutes, until firm

and cooked through. Cool on trays

for 5 minutes before transferring to

a wire rack to cool completely. Store

in an airtight container.

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aMAKES 24 • PREP 20 MINS (PLUS CHILLING) • COOK 20 MINS

It’s best to just

use fingertips to rub

in butter, to avoid

melting. Butter should

be firm and cool, but not

straight from the fridge,

to make rubbing

in easier.

Top tip

4 Other fruit of choice

can be used.

4 Only whisk eggwhites

lightly to combine – they

should just be lightly

frothy.

Top tips