Chocolate Florentines

If you want to add more lacto ovo vegetarian recipes to your recipe box, Chocolate Florentines might be a recipe you should try. This recipe makes 20 servings with 226 calories, 3g of protein, and 14g of fat each. For 63 cents per serving, this recipe covers 6% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have salted butter, glace cherries, dark chocolate, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is brought to you by Simply Delicious Food. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 35 minutes. This recipe is liked by 10 foodies and cooks. Overall, this recipe earns a not so excellent spoonacular score of 20%. If you like this recipe, take a look at these similar recipes: Dark Chocolate Florentines, Confession #139: I’m Stuck in Holiday Gear… Dark Chocolate Almond Florentines, and Daring Bakers’ Challenge: Vanilla Bean & Blood Orange Panna Cotta with Orange Allspice Caramel Sauce and Orange Cardamom Hazelnut Dark Chocolate Florentines (gluten free).

Servings: 20

Preparation duration: 10 minutes

Cooking duration: 25 minutes

 

Ingredients:

200g flaked almonds, toasted

70ml cream (approximately ¼ cup)

200g dark chocolate (optional)

2 tablespoons flour

150g Glacé cherries, halved

2 tablespoons maple syrup

75g salted butter, cubed

1 cup caster sugar

Equipment:

baking paper

sauce pan

oven

Cooking instruction summary:

Pre-heat the oven to 180°c and line 3 baking trays with baking paper.In a large saucepan, combine the sugar, cream, butter and maple syrup and bring to the boil.Allow to cook until the mixture turns golden brown.Add the almonds, cherries and flour and mix together quickly to coat in the buttery-sugar mixture.Place spoonfuls of the mixture on the baking trays, making sure you leave sufficient space in between each Florentine as they will spread quite a bit.Place the trays in the oven and allow to bake for 10-15 minutes until the cookies are a deep amber colour.Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely.Optional: Melt the chocolate and spread onto the back of each Florentine. Allow to set then store in the fridge until ready to eat.

 

Step by step:


1. Pre-heat the oven to 180°c and line 3 baking trays with baking paper.In a large saucepan, combine the sugar, cream, butter and maple syrup and bring to the boil.Allow to cook until the mixture turns golden brown.

2. Add the almonds, cherries and flour and mix together quickly to coat in the buttery-sugar mixture.

3. Place spoonfuls of the mixture on the baking trays, making sure you leave sufficient space in between each Florentine as they will spread quite a bit.

4. Place the trays in the oven and allow to bake for 10-15 minutes until the cookies are a deep amber colour.

5. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely.Optional: Melt the chocolate and spread onto the back of each Florentine. Allow to set then store in the fridge until ready to eat.


Nutrition Information:

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226k Calories
3g Protein
13g Total Fat
24g Carbs
1% Health Score
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Calories
226k
11%

Fat
13g
21%

  Saturated Fat
5g
35%

Carbohydrates
24g
8%

  Sugar
17g
19%

Cholesterol
13mg
4%

Sodium
30mg
1%

Caffeine
8mg
3%

Get Enough Of These
Protein
3g
6%

Manganese
0.47mg
24%

Vitamin E
2mg
19%

Copper
0.28mg
14%

Magnesium
50mg
13%

Fiber
2g
10%

Iron
1mg
9%

Vitamin B2
0.15mg
9%

Phosphorus
83mg
8%

Zinc
0.67mg
4%

Potassium
151mg
4%

Calcium
39mg
4%

Vitamin A
149IU
3%

Vitamin B3
0.49mg
2%

Vitamin B1
0.03mg
2%

Selenium
1µg
2%

Folate
6µg
2%

Vitamin B5
0.11mg
1%

Vitamin K
1µg
1%

covered percent of daily need
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