Chocolate Hazelnut Friands - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup gluten-free flour (plain)
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 1/3 cups icing sugar (gluten-free plus extra to dust)
1 1/4 cups hazelnut meal (ground hazelnuts)
80 g chocolate (dark eating finely chopped)
240 g unsalted butter (melted cooled)
6 egg whites (lightly beaten)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 180C (160C fan forced).
Lightly grease 9 x 1/2 cup friand pans.
Sift flour, cocoa powder and icing sugar into a medium bowl and stir in hazelnut meal and chocolate, make a well at centre.
Add butter and egg white to dry ingredients, mix until well combined.
Pour mixture evenly into prepared pans.
Bake for 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted at centre comes out clean.
Cool in pans for 5 minutes, transfer to a wire rack to cool.
Serve dusted with extra icing sugar.