BLUEBERRY FRIANDS

You can use raspberies / blackberrie or blueberries in this recipe , it is blueberries for me . Preheat your oven to 160 deg C . Grease your 12 cup muffin pan with cooking spray . In a large bowl whisk together 125 gm of almond meal , 1 cup of icing sugar and 60 gm of quinoa flour , breaking up any lumps of mixture . Gently mix in 125 gm of melted and cooled butter / marg along with 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract . In a separate bowl beat 4 room temperature egg whites until foamy and soft peaks form . Now gently fold in the flour mixture . Spoon the mixture into the prepared pan holes . Place 4 blue berries around the centre of each friand and gently pres down into the batter . Bake for 25 minutes , until lightly browned and cooked when a metal skewer inserted comes out clean .