You may have heard of financiers, small French almond cakes. You may also have heard of friands, small Australian/New Zealand almond cakes. The two cakes are just about the same, and there are only two differences between them: the countries that those names are used in and the shapes of the cakes. Tradition …
Cranberry Almond Financiers
Financiers are buttery almond cakes that are easy to make, despite their elegant-sounding name. If you can bake muffins, you can definitely bake these. The cakes are baked in small molds – and the molds can be any shape, though a mini muffin tin works beautifully if you don’t have a bunch …