My BFFs –My best feijoa friands

MAKES 12 150g butter, melted

1 / cup icing sugar 2

1 tsp lime or lemon

zest (optional)

4 large egg whites

Pinch of salt

1 ¼ cups ground almonds

1 / cup desiccated coconut 2

4-6 medium feijoas, peeled

and sliced into three pieces Icing sugar, to dust

1 Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a 12-hole friand or muffin tray and place a square of baking paper in each recess. 2 Melt the butter and mix in the sugar and zest. Lightly whisk the egg whites and salt. Add to the butter and sugar.

3 Stir in the ground almonds and coconut. Mix gently to combine.

4 Fill the friand or muffin pan recesses to two-thirds full. Place a slice of feijoa on each, gently pressing it in the batter.

5 Bake for 20 minutes and cool for 5 minutes in the tray before carefully turning out.

6 Dust the friands with icing sugar and eat!