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LEMON FRIANDS WITH LEMON CURD | BASIC FRIANDS RECIPE

Steps:

• Whisk together the juice, eggs and sugar in the pot until warm to touch.
• Once the egg mixture is warm, add the chopped butter little by little whisking continuously and heat whilst whisking gently but continuously until thickened. (Check my video recipe for the tip)
• Pass through a fine sieve.
• And refrigerate the lemon curd until ready to use.
• Melt butter and set aside to cool slightly.
• Mix icing sugar, salt, flour, zest and almonds together in a bowl.
• In another bowl, whisk egg whites to a soft meringue.
• Now that all three elements are ready, fold in butter and vanilla essence into the dry ingredient mix followed by the egg whites (check the video for the correct way of folding) and pipe evenly into greased moulds.
• Bake at 180°C between 18 to 25 mins.
• Once baked, let it sit in the tin for 3 mins and then turn over to release them. And when they are cooled completely finish off with some lemon curd on top.

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Steps:

• 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.