Almond-Brown Butter Financiers (Financiers aux Amandes et au Beurre Noisette) Makes 15 financiers. Recipe is reprinted with permission from “French Desserts” by Hillary Davis (Gibbs Smith, September ...

While composing our gourmet coffee last time, we felt the urge to make financiers. And we can assure you that we devoured these little almond powder cakes. To enhance the flavors, we even added ...

These little cakes get their name because of their rich ingredients - nuts and lots of butter - and from the traditional shape, which is said to resemble a bar of gold. Ideally, financiers should be ...

If you can't find a financier mould, use a 24-cavity mini-muffin pan. Butter and flour a financier mould (or mini-muffin pan). Preheat oven to 425 F. Make beurre noisette by melting the butter in a ...

2014 has been a pretty fantastic year for baking books, with bakers and pastry chefs here in Los Angeles and around the country publishing books that are both pretty to look at and surprisingly ...

Some people advise selling gold. Others advocate buying it. I prefer to bake it - or, in this case, a diminutive dessert that evokes golden shapes and flavors. Financiers are traditionally small ...

At Little Next Door on 3rd Street, the tiny financiers are little works of art, a single raspberry pressed into each one like a garnet. They’re made with only six ingredients; the trick, of course, is ...

Financiers are light almond sponge cakes with a crispy outer and soft centre, dotted with tangy blueberries – perfect with a cup of tea. Traditionally they were made to resemble golden bricks, which ...

Financiers are petite French, cakelike pastries that are light, moist and not overly sweet. The lovely flavor is derived from the addition of brown butter and almond flour. Adding a final flourish of ...

This recipe is adapted from From Around My French Table by Dorie Greenspan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010). I didn't have the special little ingot-shaped rectangular molds that give these little ...