Blackberry Financiers
Blackberry Financiers – buttery, moist and rich French cake with blackberries. Homemade financiers are great with tea or coffee. So good!
I recently had some amazing financiers at a pastry shop and those dainty and cute looking little cakes had me searching for the recipe online so my baker Kendoll and I could make them at home.
After much research, we finally decided on the blackberry financiers recipe from Bon Appetit.
In Paris, financiers are shaped like a little rectangle gold bar (I guess to signify bankers since financiers means bankers literally) and they can be found in many patisserie.
Whenever I visit Paris, I would always order them to go with my cup of coffee in the morning or afternoon.
These blackberry financiers are so good as they are topped with blackberries. Not many people have the financiers mold so we used a regular muffin pan. It worked out well.
Dust with powdered sugar generously and serve them for your next tea party. They are amazing!
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Blackberry Financiers Recipe
Blackberry Financiers - buttery, moist and rich French cake with blackberries. Homemade financiers are great with tea or coffee. So good.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup plus 5 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 cup sliced almonds
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups plus 2 tablespoons powdered sugar; additional for dusting
- 5 large egg whites
- 2 tablespoons honey
- Nonstick vegetable oil spray
- 2 cups fresh, or frozen, thawed blackberries, halved
Instructions
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Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Simmer until browned bits begin to form. Continue to simmer, frequently scraping up browned bits at bottom of pan, until fragrant and dark brown but not burnt, 6–7 minutes. Scrape butter and all browned bits into a medium bowl. Let cool for 3–4 minutes.
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Meanwhile, process almonds and flour in a food processor until nuts are finely ground. Transfer to a medium bowl; whisk in 1 1/2 cups plus 2 Tbsp. powdered sugar. Add egg whites; mix until smooth. Fold in honey.
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Fold browned butter into batter. DO AHEAD: Batter can be made 3 days ahead. Cover and chill.
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Arrange a rack in middle of oven; preheat to 375°. Coat muffin cups with nonstick spray. Pour 1 generous Tbsp. batter into each prepared muffin cup. Top with 3–4 blackberry halves.
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Bake until cakes are golden brown and just cooked through, 15–16 minutes. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes. Remove cakes from pan. Serve warm or at room temperature. Dust with powdered sugar just before serving.
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MeCooks
This dish looks delicious. I need to try it at home.
Carla
Is there a way to save your recipes another way ?I don’t have Facebook or the other stuff that is a option to use .
Everything looks so yummy !
Thanks
Rasa Malaysia
Hi Carla, you can print my recipes using the little printer button on top of the recipe.
Beth
What is with all the haters? It’s just rude.
Rasa Malaysia
Hi Beth, thanks for being kind. :)
Chris
You lost me with this no doubt delicious recipe when I read 1/2 cup and 5 table spoons. That is just too cumbersome.
Rasa Malaysia
Hi Chris, this is the recipe we followed from the Bon Appetit website.
Joan
Why is it cumbersome? Or difficult for that matter? In US butter sticks have measurements printed on the wrapper. Follow the instructions, I know you can read. The recipes here have clear instructions and they always work out. They have been tested.
Jenny
Can ground almonds be used instead of sliced almonds? Also is 1 cup of sliced almonds equivalent to 1 cup of ground almond? I guess it shd be less but can you let me know how much?
Agree with Lynn, it wld help if the measurements are in grams or ounces.
Thanks.
Rasa Malaysia
Hi Jenny, I am not sure about ground almond since we didn’t use that. You can convert using this tool: https://rasamalaysia.com/conversion/
Lokman Hakim
Very delicious…nice sharing
Fiona
These look amazing! Would they work well in a Madeleine pan or do you think the muffin pan would be better?
Rasa Malaysia
Hi Fiona, I think it works best in a regular muffin pan.
Liz
Hi whst size muffin tins please…mini?? Or ?
Rasa Malaysia
Regular.
Lynn
Can you confirm that you use US cup/spoon measures, not British (which is what I think is used in Malaysia).
Rasa Malaysia
Yes US cups.
Lynn
These sound delicious. However, it would really help if you could put the amounts in either grams or pounds and ounces (or both) as amounts like “half a cup plus five tablespoons” are really hard to work out, especially as cups and tablespoons are different sizes around the world.
Rasa Malaysia
Hi Lynn, you can use this conversion tool: https://rasamalaysia.com/conversion/
CM Carter
I came to look because it said BLACKberry, only to see that it is BLUEberry. Very misleading name and recipe.
Rasa Malaysia
It’s blackberry, trust me. After baking they sort of look like blueberry.
Rasa Malaysia
It’s blackberry, trust me. After baking they sort of look like blueberry. Zoom into the pictures and you will know they are BLACKberry.
Beth
Don’t pay attention to the nasty. Anyone reading your recipe can plainly see that it calls for blackberries and not blueberries. Clearly reading comprehension is not CM Carter’s strength.
These look delicious, Rasa. And thanks for not insisting that I buy a financier pan in order to enjoy them!
Rasa Malaysia
Hi Beth, yeah the pan is too expensive to buy and regular muffin pan works just fine. :)
Stephanie Jaeger
They look like blackberries to me. Thanks for the recipe….I will be making this, this week.
Rasa Malaysia
Awesome thanks Stephanie. :)