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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook florentines using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Florentines:
- Take 12 glace cherries
- Make ready 1 ball of preserved ginger in syrup (optional)
- Get 100 g butter
- Prepare 100 g demerara or soft brown sugar
- Prepare 100 g golden syrup
- Take 100 g plain flour
- Make ready 160 g flaked almonds
- Prepare 150 g 70% dark chocolate
Absolutely top drawer and perfect if you want to give a special homemade present at Christmas. "Florentines are a welcome gift at any time of year. Use this recipe to try our favourite chocolate and fruit flavour combinations - cherry and dark chocolate, orange and milk. Or create your own with crystallised ginger, pistachios, white chocolate, cranberries - whatever you like! A Florentine biscuit (or simply, a Florentine) is a sweet pastry of nuts and fruit.
Steps to make Florentines:
- Heat the oven to 180C/Gas 4. Cut the cherries and ginger, if using, into small pieces.
- Add the butter, sugar and syrup to a pan, I also added a pinch of salt, and heat gently until the butter has melted and the sugar has dissolved.
- Add the chopped cherries and ginger to the flour and mix together with the almonds.
- Add the dry mixture to the butter and syrup mixture and combine well with a wooden spoon or spatula. Line two large baking sheets with baking parchment.
- Place teaspoonfuls of the mixture on to the baking sheets, leaving plenty of room for them to spread. Bake for 10 minutes until dark golden brown, remove from the oven and use a knife to push the edges in so they're not too lacy at the sides. Leave on the baking sheets until hardened, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely and crisp up.
- Melt the chocolate gently in a pan, then dip the undersides of the florentines in it, place upside down back on the wire rack to dry.
- Eat when the chocolate has set.
Florentines are made of nuts (typically hazelnuts and almonds) and candied cherries mixed with sugar melted together with butter and honey, cooked in an oven. They are often coated on the bottom with chocolate. Other types of candied fruit are used as well. They typically contain neither flour nor eggs. Florentines demand a careful eye, both going in and coming out of the oven.
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