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.
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