Chocolate Financiers Recipes

CHOCOLATE FINANCIERS (FINANCIERS AU CHOCOLAT)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 355 F/180 C. In a medium bowl, combine almond flour, cocoa powder, icing (powdered) sugar, and sifted all-purpose flour and set aside. In a separate clean bowl, beat egg whites with an electric mixer for about 20 - 30 seconds. Add egg whites to the dry ingredients and mix with a rubber spatula. Add the cold melted butter and mix again.
• Butter cavities of a mini muffin pan. Transfer the batter to a pastry bag with the cut tip, and pipe it into molds filling up to two-thirds. Bake for 6 minutes, insert a cherry with a stem in each cake. Continue baking for the other 6 to 8 minutes until a cake tester or a toothpick comes out clean. Cool financiers in the tins for 5 minutes, then flip the mini muffin pan over to unmold cakes and let cool completely on a wire rack.

CHOCOLATE FINANCIERS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Grease a financier mold (tops of mold should measure approximately 1 7/8 by 3 * inches), madeleine mold or small muffin tin with vegetable oil and place on a baking sheet. If you use individual molds, you'll need 14.
• Melt the butter over medium-low heat, stirring often, until it turns amber and smells nutty; keep warm. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler over low heat and keep warm. Split the vanilla bean in half lengthwise and scrape out the seeds. Set both the pod and seeds aside.
• In a large bowl, sift together the sugar and flour. Add the almonds and pistachios and mix with a wooden spoon. Add the egg whites, vanilla pod and seeds and stir vigorously. Strain a quarter of the warm butter over the mixture and stir to combine. Strain in the remaining butter and mix well; then stir in the melted chocolate.
• Let the batter cool to room temperature. Remove the vanilla pod. (The batter will hold in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.)
• Pour the batter almost to the top of the molds. Bake for 12 to 13 minutes; rotate the pan after 6 minutes. Let cool slightly on the baking sheet and then transfer from the mold to a baking rack.