Financier Cake
Financiers are little almond butter cakes available in France.
The cakes are absolutely delicious, with sponge cake texture, buttery and sweet. It’s my favorite French pastry.
This homemade French financier recipe is easy and the best!
Recipe Ingredients
Despite its complex flavors, French financier recipe calls for only a few ingredients:
- Egg white
- Sugar
- Almond flour
- All purpose flour
- Melted butter
- Vanilla extract
How to Make Financiers?
It’s very easy to make financier sponge cake. First, beat the egg white and sugar until foamy.
Next, add the flours and slowly stir in the melted butter and vanilla extract.
Transfer the batter to a financier mold and bake them. Voila, these French desserts are yours to devour!
Where Can I Get the Financier Mold?
There are two types of molds. Traditional, the mold looks like a rectangle gold bar and they comes in individual unit or a pan.
I used a mini silicone financier mold, which I bought on Amazon.
How Many Calories per Serving?
Each financier cake is only 62 calories.
What to Serve with This Recipe?
Serve these little almond cakes with other pastry and sweet treats. For a French-style afternoon tea, I recommend the following recipes.
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Financier Recipe
Financiers are small and buttery almond cakes commonly found in French patisserie. The financier recipe is made of almond flour, all-purpose flour, egg whites, sugar and butter.
Ingredients
- 30 g (1.06 oz.) almond flour
- 30 g (1.06 oz.) all-purpose flour
- 2 egg white
- 80 g (2.8 oz.) powdered sugar
- 50 g (1.7 oz.) butter
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- sliced almonds, optional
Instructions
- Combine almond flour and all-purpose flour together. Using a stand mixer or electronic hand mixer.
- Beat the egg white and powdered sugar until snowy or until soft peaks form.
- Gently incorporate the flour mixture. Slowly add butter and vanilla extract until the batter becomes smooth. DO NOT over mix.
- Transfer the batter into a piping bag or a plastic bag, with one of the edges snipped off. Add the batter into financiers mold. Top each financier cake with a few sliced almonds. Bake at 220°C (428°F) for 12 minutes.
- Let cool for 15 minutes before removing the financiers from the mold.
Notes
This is a classic French recipe and hence the recipe is in grams. Conversion to ounces are not precise and not recommended. This recipe can't be converted to tablespoons or cups either. Please get a digital scale for the best baking results. I use this digital kitchen scale which is less than $20.
Nutrition Information
Yield
16Serving Size
16Amount Per Serving Calories 62Total Fat 3gSaturated Fat 2gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 0gCholesterol 7mgSodium 29mgCarbohydrates 7gNet Carbohydrates 7gFiber 1gSugar 5gProtein 1g
Cait
Good bakers use a scale. We Americans are so behind the rest of the world. When you wonder why your cookies turn out different at various times, it’s bc of the unreliability of our antiquated measurement system! GET A SCALE. And please stop asking for conversions; it makes us look stupid.
Rasa, thanks for sharing your easy and lovely recipe!
Kimberly
Its hilarious how lazy Americans are ? almost every comment asks you to convert the measurements for them. People need to either get a scale, use the tool on the recipe card or use Google! But I totally have to vouch for you, its like when I see a macaron recipe in cups and tsp, I don’t trust it bc thats not precise at all! Can’t wait to try this recipe!
American Kate
Lazy? Wow. I bet you’re fun at parties. It’s because in the US, using cups and tablespoons and ounces is how we are taught. People are used to it just like the British drive on the left when no one else does. It doesn’t make them lazy.
Dale
Is it only 30 grams each of almond flour and all purpose because that seems to small for the almond flour.
Thank you
Rasa Malaysia
Please follow the recipe. It works.
Dorothy
Hello! Can the financiers be made ahead of time, say the day before, or are they best eaten straight away? 🤔
Rasa Malaysia
You can make in advance.
nicolas horne
it’s OK in grams. we’re international after all, most of us at least. maybe not you US people though.
one question:
is it normal using some corn flour as well? we call it Maizenna here on the west coast (of europe), don’t know at your place
Rasa Malaysia
Please follow the recipe. There is no corn flour.
Lou
Lovely recipe of financiers. I always get them at French patisserie.
Kathy
Do you have to use almond flour? It is very expensive and to buy for 1 recipe could I use just regular flour?
Rasa Malaysia
You need almond flour if not it’s not really financiers. But I think if using all-purpose flour will work, too.
joan nass
Can you put the recipe in lbs and oz. not grams, please.
Rasa Malaysia
This recipe has to be very precise. It’s best to use grams, however, you can click on the conversion button in the recipe card to convert to oz.
Weiwei Salgado
Can you convert this using US metrics? Thank you!
Rasa Malaysia
The conversion button is in the recipe card. You can convert yourself.
ashoka
video of making the recipe
Rasa Malaysia
I don’t have the video. It’s very easy to make. I have step-by-step picture in the recipe card.
Rose
Hello,
I just wonder, if you have your recipe in USA, the measurements should be in ounce, cup, teaspoon, etc or at least equivalent to. I wanted to make this cake…but…don’t know your measurements in USA cooking
Can you help…
Rasa Malaysia
Rose, this recipe is from France and it’s in grams. If you want to convert to oz, you can use the red conversion button in the recipe card to convert. This can’t be converted to cups. It’s not precise and the recipe might fail.
Amy Young
Hey all you Americans! Get yourself a scale! We did recently, and it changed our lives for the better. They are inexpensive, precise, and don’t take up a lot of room. Amy from Michigan
Rasa Malaysia
Yes, just get a scale. It’s $10 each!