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Chocolate Financiers Recipe – French Almond Petit Four Cake

September 8, 2014

Today I’m making beautifully delicious French petits-fours, chocolate financiers with brown butter. Financiers are basic French traditional sweets and this is one of the first recipes I made at a cooking school in Paris. It’s really simple to make. How many petits-fours I made during my internship and how delicious they are! Enjoy!

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Those are perfect with coffee or tea. Petits fours like financiers are really 5-star hotel suite worthy.

So for those French chocolate sweets, basically you will need only seven ingredients: butter, confectioners’ sugar, ground almond, flour, eggs, walnuts, and cocoa powder.

Chocolate Financiers Recipe – French Almond Petit Four Cake
First, prepare brown butter. Over medium high heat, melt the butter.

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Bring it to a boil and continue cooking stirring with a wooden stick until it starts to brown.

Chocolate Financiers Recipe – French Almond Petit Four Cake

Brown butter, in French beurre noisette (hazelnut butter literally), is frequently used in French cooking and baking. Its caramel flavor is perfect for madeleines and today’s financiers.

Chocolate Financiers Recipe – French Almond Petit Four Cake

For dry ingredients, sift ground almond and flour. You probably already noticed that I always use a flour sifter which makes sifting process way faster and a silicon trivet mat to hold a mixing bowl.

Chocolate Financiers Recipe – French Almond Petit Four Cake

Then cocoa powder. High quality cocoa powder is critical for chocolate financiers.

Chocolate Financiers Recipe – French Almond Petit Four Cake

Then whisk to combine.

Chocolate Financiers Recipe – French Almond Petit Four Cake

In a bowl add in 3 egg whites and brown butter.

Chocolate Financiers Recipe – French Almond Petit Four Cake

Whisk to combine.

Chocolate Financiers Recipe – French Almond Petit Four Cake

Add in sifted confectioners’ sugar, 1/3 at a time.

Chocolate Financiers Recipe – French Almond Petit Four Cake

Fold in dry ingredients.

Chocolate Financiers Recipe – French Almond Petit Four Cake

Finally fold in chopped walnuts. Almond slices would be great, too.

Chocolate Financiers Recipe – French Almond Petit Four Cake

Fill the financier molds. The golden bar shape gave this petit cake the name “financier” (investor, people in finance) .

Chocolate Financiers Recipe – French Almond Petit Four Cake

Chocolate Financiers Recipe – French Almond Petit Four Cake

So financier needs financier molds. But if you don’t have one, you can use a cupcake pan or any other mini molds. Just adjust the baking time according to the size of your cake.

Chocolate Financiers Recipe – French Almond Petit Four Cake
Just bake for about 12 minutes. It’s quick.

Chocolate Financiers Recipe – French Almond Petit Four Cake

Do you want to impress guests? Dip in melted chocolate of your choice and decorate with nuts.

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Voila, Chocolate financiers, financiers au chocolat. Easy yet delectable chocolate treat. These petits-fours are perfect for tea time. Also those are great for all kinds of parties. Great nibbles for guests.

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Chocolate Financiers Recipe – French Almond Petit Four Cake
 
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Cook time
45 mins
Total time
45 mins
 
Serves: 12 financiers
Ingredients
  • ½ cup + 2 tablespoons unsalted butter (140g)
  • 1 ¼ cups almond flour (120g)
  • ⅓ cup all-purpose flour (30g)
  • 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder (22g)
  • 3 egg whites (120g; 4.23 oz)
  • 1¼ cups confectioners’ sugar (155g)
  • ½ cup chopped walnuts (50g)
  • Melted chocolate & extra chopped walnuts for decoration, optional
Instructions
PREHEAT oven to 360° F. (180° C.)
BEURRE NOISETTE
  1. In a thick-bottomed sauce pan add in unsalted butter. And over medium high heat, melt the butter and bring it to a boil. Keep cooking. When it just starts to brown immediately transfer the butter into a heat-proof cup. The caramel flavor is fantastic. This is beurre noisette, brown butter. And let cool.
DRY INGREDIENTS
  1. In a mixing bowl, sift in ground almond, all-purpose flour, unsweetened cocoa powder. And add in a generous pinch of salt. And whisk to combine. Set aside.
WET INGREDIENTS
  1. In another mixing bowl, add in egg whites and now warm beurre noisette. And whisk to combine. Then sift in confectioners’ sugar in three times. Each time you add the sugar, whisk until smooth.
MIX WET AND DRY
  1. Now pour the dry ingredients into the wet all at once and fold until combined. And finally fold in chopped walnuts. And divide the batter among the financier molds.
BAKE
  1. Bake for about 12 minutes.
SERVE
  1. Dip in the melted chocolate and decorate with chopped walnuts if you like.
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Comments

  1. EugenieKitchen says

    September 13, 2014 at 6:17 pm

    Thank you and welcome to my kitchen, Hang. Almond powder, almond flour, ground almond are all the same. Just check the ingredient, it should be 100% almonds. Happy cooking! :)

  2. Florence Chia says

    September 15, 2014 at 9:58 pm

    Thanks Eugenie for sharing this! I love all your petit fours recipes and look forward to more! Could you share the recipe for caneles, and the dutch/italian cookie romias please?

    • EugenieKitchen says

      September 22, 2014 at 10:22 am

      Those are awesome ideas. Thanks, Florence!

  3. EugenieKitchen says

    September 22, 2014 at 10:22 am

    Happy cooking, Lucre V!

  4. EugenieKitchen says

    September 25, 2014 at 9:54 am

    Happy cooking, Rouba! :)

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