The friand is a small French cake, often mistaken for a muffin.

Tasted lovely though – it’s our new best friand.

Please email me (moxie@searchforgoodhealth.com.au) if you have any scrummy friand recipes.

Maybe it's the Australian in me, but I'd always choose a friand over a cupcake.

Almond meal is the basis of the friand.

Brush 10 friand moulds with melted butter and place on a baking tray.

To avoid anyone having to go searching for those elusive friand moulds, I've cooked them in a standard muffin tin.

When Afrikan died Jakun expelled Šimon and his brother Friand (ON: Friandi).

"Bloom" is the golden baked colour given to each friand by the process of cooking at initial high heats and then reducing when the egg leavening has had maximum effect.

Le roi Soleil était notamment friand de melons, de pêches, de figues... et de petits pois.

Generously coat 12 friand moulds with 2 teaspoons of the butter and dust with 1 tablespoon of the cocoa (don't tap out the excess cocoa; leave it in the moulds.)

Mr. Sender is a descendant of pastry chefs, all of them in his mother's family; he learned the art from his grandfather in the family bakery, "Le Bebe Friand," in Chatelet, near Brussels.

A handful of the desserts were noteworthy: a gossamer chocolate soufflé, warm chocolate friand paired with a chilled chocolate parfait, and hazelnut pear roulade, dramatically topped with a whole poached pear, stem intact, sliced and twisted into a pretty spiral.

The French word friand, which means dainty or a gourmet who delights in delicate tastes, refers as well to minced meat and herbs in puff pastry, a food item unrelated to the baked items called friand or financier.

The name Friand would not have been the name of a person, since the name is otherwise not attested among the Old Norse names, and Braun suggested that it was the appellative form of frjá ("to love"), frjándi, and which meant "nephew" in some Old Norse sources.