Beurre Noisette. One of the many gifts the French have bestowed upon us fortunate foodies. As its direct translation implies, hazlenut butter, which pretty much sums up its celestial flavor. Nutty, rich and smooth. It is personally one of my all time favourite tastes. Brown butter anything, and you count me in!
A financier (pronounced as fee-nahn-see-AY) is a small tea cake, often in a rectangular shape, is made of almonds, flour, sugar, egg whites and of course, the liquid gold, beurre noisette. It is a light, springy and moist cake, best eaten with a hot cup of tea. Its early consumption dated back in 1890, produced by the magical hands of pastry chef, Lasne, who revamped the traditional pastry originally made by the Vistadines or Visitation Sisters. His bakery, located at the Rue St. Denis was near the Paris Stock Exchange. And so as a marketing move, he has transformed the cake into a rectangular-shaped confection to emulate a gold bullion or gold bar. Before you know it, business people in France carried a financier inside their pockets for a quick snack after dealing with actual gold bars. Pooof, the unyielding financier was miraculously born and so has survived the test of time! Selling like hotcakes near or far any financial district! GOLD!
Financier Recipe
145g icing sugar
53g almond flour
55g cake
2g baking powder
1g salt
10g brown sugar (preferably muscovado)
180g egg whites
80g brown butter
Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for about 17-20 minutes.
Rosey
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