James Peterson

Florentine Almond Cookies

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    Fifty

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Baking
Baking

By James Peterson

Published 2009

  • About

To make these cookies, you will first make caramel and then cook the caramel with butter to make butterscotch. Stir sliced almonds into the butterscotch and spread the mixture over a prebaked sheet of pastry. When the butterscotch mixture hardens, cut the sheet of pastry into squares.

Ingredients

Method

Preheat the oven to 375°F. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper.

Roll out the dough into a sheet just large enough to fit in the sheet pan. Place the dough on the sheet pan and dock it (poke the dough with a fork). Cover the dough with another sheet of parchment paper and nest