Almond cherry financiers - sheer heaven in a cake

Ingredients

• 70 g ground almonds
• 105 g icing sugar
• 35 g flour
• 92 g of salted butter
• 92 g of egg whites
• 1/2 tsp of baking powder
• 1/4 tsp of vanilla extract

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Preparation

• Preheat fan oven to 230deg C. Brown the butter to a nut brown.
• Sift the dry ingredients together and mix in the egg whites and vanilla. Used an electric hand held mixer.
• Add the hot butter, mixing in quickly. Pour as quickly as you can into your moulds and then pop in your sweet cherry, with stalk attached.
• Cook in the oven for 5 mins, then turn down the heat to 200deg C. Cook for a further 4 mins. Turn the oven off and leave for 4 mins more before removing from the oven.

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