Chocolate Hazelnut Friands

• 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)

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.

flour, cocoa powder, icing sugar, hazelnut meal, chocolate, unsalted butter, egg whites

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/chocolate-hazelnut-friands-457020 (may not work)