Name: Hazelnut and Buckwheat Financiers with Figs
Yield: Makes 6 large or 12 small
Ingredients: ¾ cup skin-on hazelnuts; 1¼ cups powdered sugar; ⅓ cup buckwheat flour; ¾ teaspoon kosher salt; ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter; 4 large egg whites; Nonstick vegetable oil spray; 3 fresh or dried figs, cut lengthwise into 6 wedges (optional); Demerara or raw sugar (for sprinkling)

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Claire Cottrell

These financiers are moist and nutty from the addition of brown butter and hazelnuts; in this recipe, resting the dough amplifies all of those flavors.

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