These delicious French biscuits not only taste amazing but look beautiful too. An excellent gift for someone or simply to treat yourself!
Florentines Recipe
2 tbsp butter
75g golden caster sugar
2 tsp flour
75ml crème fraîche
50g flaked almonds, toasted –
2 tbsp candied peel
2 tbsp crystallised stem ginger
50g dried sour cherries
150g dark chocolate, broken into pieces
Preparation method
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
- Heat the butter, sugar and flour in a pan over a medium heat, stirring continuously, until the butter has melted and the sugar has dissolved.
- Gradually add the crème fraîche, stirring continuously until well combined.
- Add the almonds, candied peel, stem ginger, and sour cherries and mix well until combined.
- Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper and place teaspoonfuls of the florentine mixture onto it. Space the teaspoonfuls out at 2.5cm/1in intervals so they don’t merge together when heated.
- Transfer the florentines to the oven and bake for 12-15 minutes, or until golden-brown. Remove from the oven and set aside to cool on the tray, then transfer the florentines to a cooling rack.
- Bring a little water to a simmer in a pan. Suspend a heatproof bowl over the water (do not allow the base of the bowl to touch the water). Add the chocolate pieces and stir until smooth and melted.
- Turn the florentines so that the flat base is facing upwards. Spread the melted chocolate over the florentine bases and set aside to cool and set.
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