Florentines

Name: Florentines
Yield: Makes 12-16
Ingredients: 85 g/3 oz mixture of nuts, e.g. almonds, pistachios, hazelnuts, walnuts, pecans, roughly chopped; 30 g/1 oz glacé angelica, orange or lemon rinds, roughly chopped (in the absence of glacé lemons or oranges I have used the rind of fresh organic fruit - or fresh herb Angelica which I love - they make a delightful contrast); 55 g/2 oz unsalted butter; 2 tbsp whipping cream; 55 g/2 oz caster sugar; 55 g/2 oz plain flour, sifted; 115 g/4 oz dark chocolate, melted (for the finish); 30 g/1 oz glacé cherries, roughly chopped

Preparation info

Makes
12-16

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Chocolate

By Sara Jayne Stanes

Published 1999

About

You can’t beat home-made.

Ingredients

55 g/2 oz unsalted butter
55 g/2

Vegetarian
Cookies

Method

Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F/gas 4 and line 2 baking trays with silicon paper.

Over a low flame, melt butter with sugar and cream, stirring all the time. Boil and immediately remove from heat. Add nuts, fruit and flour and thoroughly amalgamate.

Drop generous teaspoonful