Chocolate Hazelnut Friands

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

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)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 180c (160c fan forced).
• 2 lightly grease 9 x 1/2 cup friand pans.
• 3 sift flour, cocoa powder and icing sugar into a medium bowl and stir in hazelnut meal and chocolate, make a well at centre.
• 4 add butter and egg to dry ingredients, mix until well combined.
• 5 pour mixture evenly into prepared pans.
• 6 bake for 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted at centre comes out clean.
• 7 cool in pans for 5 minutes, transfer to a wire rack to cool.
• 8 serve dusted with extra icing sugar.