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Nici’s best feijoa friands

Nici Wickes shares the recipe for her very best feijoa friands. With their gentle, perfumed flavour and jellied texture, feijoas really make these delicate, gluten-free friands sing

My best feijoa friands

Makes 12

Cook

20M

Nici Wickes

This recipe first appeared in New Zealand Woman’s Weekly.

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Ingredients

150 gram butter, melted

1/2 cup icing sugar

1 teaspoon lime or lemon zest (optional)

4 large egg whites

pinch of salt

1 1/4 cup ground almonds

1/2 cup desiccated coconut

4 – 6 medium feijoas, peeled and sliced into three pieces

icing sugar, to dust

Method

1.Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a 12-hole friand or muffin tray and place a square of baking paper in each recess.

2.Melt the butter and mix in the sugar and zest. Lightly whisk the egg whites and salt. Add to the butter and sugar.

3.Stir in the ground almonds and coconut. Mix gently to combine.

4.Fill the friand or muffin pan recesses to two-thirds full. Place a slice of feijoa on each, gently pressing it in the batter.

5.Bake for 20 minutes and cool for 5 minutes in the tray before carefully turning out.

6.Dust the friands with icing sugar and eat!

Nici Wickes