My Friend The Friand - cooking recipe

Ingredients

180 g butter (preferably unsalted)
200 g icing sugar
60 g plain flour, sifted
120 g ground almonds
5 large egg whites
1 teaspoon grated fresh lemon rind or 1 teaspoon orange rind (i prefer orange)
icing sugar, for dusting

Preparation

Heat oven to 200 degrees C.
Melt butter and allow it to cool.
Use 1 tablespoon to coat 10 muffin tin moulds or individual oval baking moulds measuring 5 x 10 cm.
Sift icing sugar and flour into bowl, mix in the ground almonds.
Lightly beat egg whites with a fork, fold them into dry ingredients.
Add cooled, melted butter and orange rind, mix well.
Three quarters fill each mould with mixture and bake on the middle shelf of oven for 10 minutes.
Turn tray around, and bake for another 5- 10 minutes, till tops are golden, and springy to the touch.
Leave in the tins for 5 minutes, then gently unmould onto a wire tray and leave to cool.
Dust the friands with icing sugar to serve.