Just as the days are getting shorter and cooler and our desire to fire up the oven is kicking into gear, here comes a terrific crop of new baking books. With entries from Sherry Yard, Rose Levy ...

Almond-Brown Butter Financiers (Financiers aux Amandes et au Beurre Noisette) Makes 15 financiers. Recipe is reprinted with permission from “French Desserts” by Hillary Davis (Gibbs Smith, September ...

At Little Next Door on 3rd Street, the tiny financiers are little works of art, a single raspberry pressed into each one like a garnet. They’re made with only six ingredients; the trick, of course, is ...

PEARLAND (KTRK) -- Ronnie Killen has built a reputation for serving some of the best food our city has to offer and he's opening his kitchen again. Killen's Steakhouse pastry chef, Samantha Mendoza ...

Some people advise selling gold. Others advocate buying it. I prefer to bake it - or, in this case, a diminutive dessert that evokes golden shapes and flavors. Financiers are traditionally small ...

Preheat the oven to 400°. Butter and flour 36 mini muffin cups. In a saucepan, cook the 7 ounces of butter over moderate heat, shaking the pan, until the milk solids begin to brown, about 5 minutes.

These little French cakes were named for the bankers who frequented a bakery in the financial district of Paris more than a century ago. Make beurre noisette (brown butter); add it to a batter made ...

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Financiers are petite French, cake-like pastries that are light, moist, and not overly sweet. The lovely flavor is derived from the addition of brown butter and almond flour. Adding a final flourish ...

Financiers are petite French, cakelike pastries that are light, moist and not overly sweet. The lovely flavor is derived from the addition of brown butter and almond flour. Adding a final flourish of ...