Florentines

Name: Florentines
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 296 milliliters finely chopped almonds; 3 Tbsps butter; 177 milliliters finely chopped candied orange peel; 79 milliliters flour; 118 milliliters heavy cream; 118 milliliters sugar

Florentines is a vegetarian dessert. One portion of this dish contains roughly 2g of protein, 7g of fat, and a total of 110 calories. This recipe serves 24. This recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up heavy cream, flour, candied orange peel, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

In a saucepan, mix together 1/2 cup each of heavy cream and sugar and 3 tablespoons butter and bring the mixture to a boil.

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Heavy Cream

Butter

Sugar

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Sauce Pan

Remove it from the heat and stir in 1 1/4 cups finely chopped almonds, 3/4 cup finely chopped candied orange peel, and 1/3 cup flour. Drop the batter from a tablespoon into mounds about 3 inches apart on oiled and lightly floured cookie sheets and flatten each cookie with a wet spatula.

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Candied Orange Peel

Almonds

Mounds Bar

All Purpose Flour

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Baking Sheet

Spatula

Bake the cookies in a moderate oven (350°F) for about 10 minutes.

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Oven

Remove them from the oven and let them stand for about 5 minutes.

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Oven

Remove the cookies to a wire rack, let them cool completely, and spread them with chocolate glaze. Chill them.

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Chocolate Glaze

Spread

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Wire Rack

Chocolate Glaze

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Chocolate Glaze

Melt 1 ounce each of unsweetened chocolate and sweet cooking chocolate over simmering water.

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Unsweetened Baking Chocolate

Chocolate

Water

Add 2 tablespoons butter and 1 teaspoon honey and stir the glaze until the butter is melted. For an easier glaze, use melted bittersweet chocolate.

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Bittersweet Chocolate

Butter

Glaze

Honey

Recipe Notes

Use a small offset spatula to spread the dough into thin rounds on the baking sheet.

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Spread

Dough

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Offset Spatula

Baking Sheet

Use 2 ounces semisweet chocolate, melted, for the glaze.

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Semisweet Chocolate

Glaze

From The Gourmet Cookie Book: The Single Best Recipe from Each Year 1941-2009 by Condé Nast Publications. Copyright © 2010 by Condé Nast Publications; photographs copyright © 2010 by Condé Nast Publications. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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