Chocolate Hazelnut Friands

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• Ready In: 35 mins
• Serves: 9
• Yields: 9 friands

Ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup  gluten-free flour (plain)
• 1⁄4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 1⁄3 cups icing sugar (gluten-free plus extra to dust)
• 1 1⁄4 cups hazelnut meal (ground hazelnuts)
• 80  g chocolate (dark eating finely chopped)
• 240  g unsalted butter (melted cooled)
• 6  egg whites (lightly beaten)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 180C (160C fan forced).
2. Lightly grease 9 x 1/2 cup friand pans.
3. Sift flour, cocoa powder and icing sugar into a medium bowl and stir in hazelnut meal and chocolate, make a well at centre.
4. Add butter and egg white to dry ingredients, mix until well combined.
5. Pour mixture evenly into prepared pans.
6. Bake for 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted at centre comes out clean.
7. Cool in pans for 5 minutes, transfer to a wire rack to cool.
8. Serve dusted with extra icing sugar.