A mouthwatering taste sensation, passionfruit and white chocolate friands are very easy to make and perfect for that special morning tea.
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Until I made these passionfruit and white chocolate friands, I had never made friands before.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d eaten and enjoyed them just never made them myself.
I think the fact that they usually contain nearly half a carton’s worth of egg-whites has always put me off.
Enter homemade ice-cream addiction.
If you have a Thermomix and an ice-cream churn, making ice-cream from scratch is easy.
Probably too easy really and if you add backyard chicken eggs then you have irresistible, ridiculously easy, creamy, rich vanilla ice-cream any day of the week.
Anyway I digress, back to friands. My ice-cream recipe (I’m getting back don’t worry) uses two egg yolks so my freezer was quickly filling up with little baggies of egg whites just waiting to be used.
The original recipe for these used 6 egg whites.
I only had 5 in the freezer and needed friands stat so I just went with it and they turned out perfectly.
I’ve never actually cooked with frozen egg whites before but they defrosted and whipped up just as well as if they were fresh.
Yay for no waste! I must admit, they sat in there for ages because all I could think of to make with them was meringue and I had absolutely no use for that other than to stuff my face with.
Since then I’ve found/thought of...
10 ways to use leftover egg whites:
- Use them for bread or pastry glaze instead of a whole egg.
- Decadently rich chocolate mousse.
- Fluffy white icing for cupcakes and cakes.
- Chocolate macaroons.
- Cinnamon sugar pecans.
- Coconut macaroon ice cream sandwiches - to make the most of the homemade ice-cream.
- Royal icing for hard icing for sugar cookies - mix 1 egg white per cup of icing sugar.
- Crispy wonton mozzarella sticks (these look a-mazing!)
- Sweet potato fries - yep apparently the key to crunch.
- Egg white chocolate brownies.
I guess I’ll just have to make more ice-cream so I have leftover egg whites to try all these right?
If you do decide to use your prized egg whites on passionfruit and white chocolate friands then I suggest you do so for an occasion.
Or promise to take them to a friends house or make some other commitment with them.
Because if you leave the whole batch in your kitchen and you have a similar amount of self control as me, you will eat them all.
You have been warned.
If this is your plan though, I recommend warming them a little before eating. It makes them even better.
Now for a little spelling lesson - have you noticed that if you change the ‘a’ in friands to ‘e’ you have friends? Coincidence? I think not.
We’re all meant to be friends with these little cakes of deliciousness. Enjoy!
Recipe
Passionfruit and white chocolate friands
Ingredients
- 5 egg whites
- 185 g 6.5oz butter, melted
- 1 cup almond meal
- 1 ⅓ cups icing sugar
- ½ cup plain flour
- Pulp of two passionfruit
- 50-100 g 2 - 3.5oz chopped white chocolate
- 2 tablespoon flaked almonds
- Icing sugar to serve
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C(356F) fan-forced. Either line a 12-hole muffin tin with cupcake cases, grease a friand tin, or get your 12-hole silicone muffin tin out (no need to grease it I found).
- Place the egg whites in the bowl of an electric mixer and whip until stiff.
- Take the bowl off the stand and use a spatula to fold in the butter, almond meal, sifted icing sugar and flour until just combined.
- Fold through the passionfruit pulp and then the chopped white chocolate.
- Divide the mixture between the cases and sprinkle the top of each one with a couple of flaked almonds.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely and dust with icing sugar to serve.
- Pour mixture into friands pan or cupcake cases, bake 25 minutes. Dust with icing sugar when the cake is cool.
Jasline (Foodie Baker) says
I love the idea of making more ice cream so that I will be more motivated to try out more egg-yolk-less recipes ;) Thank you for sharing my Egg White Brownies recipe! Your friands look absolutely delicious, I'll just need a cup of tea and tea-time is perfect!
Claire says
Any excuse to eat ice cream I say!
Lorraine @Not Quite Nigella says
Hi Claire, have you tried using canned chickpea water or aquafaba as it is being called? It can be used as a substitute for egg whites.
Claire says
I haven't yet! I actually soaked some dried chickpeas over the weekend and tried to use the liquid from that cause the can stuff freaks me out a little. FYI it doesn't work!
Alison says
Yum! Passionfruit and white chocolate together sound divine! I also, have been putting off making friands... thanks for the tip re freezing egg whites!
Claire says
You're welcome Alison!
Hotly Spiced says
I always have lots of egg whites in my freezer too and it's always fun thinking of ways to use them up. Friands is an excellent idea and I do like how you've added passionfruit and white chocolate to your friands - delicious! And yes, friands pair well with friends xx
Claire says
Now I need my passionfruit vine to actually give me some fruit so I can make them again!