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Janet · Joined: 26 Sep 2009 Posts: 17

These are easy and delicious - just tweeked a favourite recipe.

Preheat oven to 180c

In a large bowl mix together;
*200gm almond meal
*1 cup desicated coconut
*1 1/2 cups glucose powder
*1 teaspoon baking powder (choose gluton free if necessary)

In a small saucepan melt
*200gm unsalted butter
Allow to cool a bit if very hot

In a medium bowl whisk
*4 whole eggs
Continue whisking and add the luke warm butter and add
*1 capful of vanilla essence (optional - lots of fructose but only using small amount)

Pour wet ingrediants into dry and mix thoroughly

Divide mix into 12 large muffin tins - either greased or lined with individual papers.

Place 3 blueberries on top of each - again optional and you can use any berries.

Bake without oven fan for 25 - 35 mins depending on oven - should be golden and brown - a skewer, once inserted, should come out clean.

Remove friands from tins and cool on rack.

Eat plain or serve with cream - warmed is nice.

I have fed these to many people and everyone loved them. It occured to me that you could add lemon or orange zest to vary the flavour and this would eliminate the vanilla if you wanted.

They freeze well - 1 minute on 'defrost' setting if you have a microwave to thaw.

Enjoy!

bushturkey · Joined: 23 Oct 2009 Posts: 12 Location: Buderim Qld

Thanks for that - have printed it out and will give them a whirl sometime soon - a good alternative offering for morning tea at work!!!! Cheers.
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Janet · Joined: 26 Sep 2009 Posts: 17

Hope you like them. There are several people at work (2 very seriously) trying to eliminate fructose and I occasionally take some of these in. One thing of interest - I find that if I use fresh berries, they seem to sit on top during baking - but frozen ones will sink to the bottom. Either way is good eating, but as a decorative touch, the fresh seem to give a better result (I used 1/2 a small strawberry on each the other day and they stayed afloat). They do tend to overbrown very easily (though still moist inside) so watch toward the end. My electric oven takes about 28 mins but my father's gas oven took 33 mins.

Cheers - Janet Very Happy

bushturkey · Joined: 23 Oct 2009 Posts: 12 Location: Buderim Qld

Hey Janet, haven't had time to try the friands yet and I am going away for a week on Saturday so will have to wait till I get back. Will let you know how I get on later. Thanks again - interesting about the berries! Cheers.
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Janet · Joined: 26 Sep 2009 Posts: 17

Well it pays to read the packaging before wildly claiming something is fructose free (apart from the obvious optional ingrediants like vanilla and berries). This is something that never occurred to me with coconut - though I did realise there was some fructose in almonds. For those counting every gram, I discovered yesterday that the cup of coconut (at about 75gm) has 2 gm of fructose and the 200gm of almond meal has 4.4gm fructose. It's not all bad news though - the mix divides into 12 cakes and takes the total to about .6gm fructose for each one - I'll leave it to someone else to work out the berry and vanilla content!
For those who don't keep a lot of baking ingrediants around, I forgot to put the baking powder into the last lot and it didn't seem to make any difference - the large quantity of eggs probably contributes nicely to the rising process.

Cheers - Janet