Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, florentines. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

It's time to go a little nutty with this festive Florentine recipe. Crispy, gooey and chocolatey, these biscuits are packed with almonds. Florentines are a delicious mixture of toasted nuts and candied fruit that are coated with a sweet sticky mixture of honey and sugar. They are finished with a layer of melted chocolate.

Florentines is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Florentines is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have florentines using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Florentines:

1. Prepare 12 glace cherries
2. Make ready 1 ball of preserved ginger in syrup (optional)
3. Get 100 g butter
4. Prepare 100 g demerara or soft brown sugar
5. Make ready 100 g golden syrup
6. Get 100 g plain flour
7. Make ready 160 g flaked almonds
8. Make ready 150 g 70% dark chocolate

Florentines demand a careful eye, both going in and coming out of the oven. It is essential to flatten Stir occasionally until liquid. Carefully dip the underside of each florentine in the chocolate and leave. A wide variety of florentines options are available to you, such as material, feature, and jewelry main material.

Instructions to make Florentines:

1. Heat the oven to 180C/Gas 4. Cut the cherries and ginger, if using, into small pieces.
2. 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.
3. Add the chopped cherries and ginger to the flour and mix together with the almonds.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Eat when the chocolate has set.

Carefully dip the underside of each florentine in the chocolate and leave. A wide variety of florentines options are available to you, such as material, feature, and jewelry main material. If there was such a thing as a prize for the very best biscuit in the world, one bite of a Florentine would tell you this was the winner. Florentine: The true cuis. has been added to your Cart. I'd never baked Florentine biscuits before -I'm not too keen on the chocolate/citrus combo!- but if I'd been in the Bake Off Tent on Biscuit Week, these Apricot, Nut and Seed Florentines is what I would.

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