Tuesdays with Dorie BWD: Pistachio-Matcha Financiers

December 9, 2025 at 8:48 pm | Posted in BWD, cakes & tortes, cookies & bars, general pastry, groups, simple cakes, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 3 Comments
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To me, financiers represent a “quiet luxury” of the pastry world. Classic, timeless, but understated, you have to be in the know to recognize just how rich and indulgent they are. These Pistachio-Matcha Financiers are spendy treats to be sure, made with lots of butter and pistachios, but compared to so many of the pastries going viral today, they are not in-your-face flashy.

Dorie parks this recipe in the cookie chapter, but financiers, like madeleines, are soft and cake-like. While they are traditionally made in rectangular bar molds, these are baked in a mini muffin tin. I have a mini muffin pan that makes 24 baby cakes. This recipe yields 28, which would require me to cool, wash, dry and re-butter and flour my tin to get the few extra. Guess what I’m not doing. That…I’m not doing that. I’m doing math instead. I went with 2/3 the recipe, which just used a full stick of butter and made 18 or so. (To be fair, I could have made the full recipe and easily baked off the extra blob of batter in one of my little individual pie tins to make a tiny cake, but the smaller amount of financiers was plenty.)

I always associate financiers with browned butter, although Dorie only states to bring it to a boil here. I did decide to take my butter to a light, early-stage browning. Dressed up in white chocolate glaze and freeze dried raspberry crumbles, the finished financiers are perfect festive treats to serve to a discerning crowd.

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They are the perfect bite-sized snack. I inherited some mini muffin tins when my mother passed away, so now I have 6 — enough to make many financiers at one time.

Comment by Judy— December 17, 2025 #

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“Guess what I am not doing?”….hahahaha!! Love it! Yours look very festive and you got quite the nice crown on them…mine did not. I also love the little bit about only discerning minds will know…these aren’t your typical mini muffins!

Comment by isthisakeeper— December 17, 2025 #

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I agree with you on this one. Yours came out beautiful for the holiday season.

Comment by Diane Zwang— December 17, 2025 #

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a whisk and a spoon