Florentines are a wonderful holiday cookie, but delightful all year round. Austrian bakers are attributed with creating these cookies although their name implies an Italian heritage.
Florentines are a delicious mixture of candied fruit (I used dried cranberries) and nuts (I used sliced almonds) with caramel, then baked. They are very often finished with chocolate on one side.
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- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F. Line two baking trays with parchment paper. Chop the cranberries finely. Melt butter, sugar and honey in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Cook until the mixture turns a caramel colour, stirring occasionally.
- Pour in the whipping cream and bring it to a boil. Add in chopped dried cranberries and almond slices. Lower the heat and cook until the mixture is combined and thickened.
- Scoop two rounded teaspoons of the mixture on prepared baking trays and bake for about 10 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on baking tray for 5 minutes, then transfer to racks to cool. Coat or drizzle Florentines with melted chocolate as desired. Set aside at room temperature until set.
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186 comments:
This sounds easy-thanks for the background info.
I'm not sure I've tried this cookie before - it sounds fabulous. My daughter was just asking me to make a different kind of cookie - this would be perfect because she loves almonds.
These are so pretty! What a sweet treat!
awesome angie..as usual nice one!!
They look so yummy delicious, i have never made them athome.
Oh those are great! Really pretty cookies.
I adore Florentine cookies, yours look spectacular!
This is a fantastic recipe, I'm going to try these out, they would make a great snack!
These look so delicious! I still have a lot of almonds that I need to use, so I will make these.
Wow these look delicious, so crispy!
I love Florentine Cookies! I had these once a couple of years ago and it was delightful..but they had raisins and candied cherries instead of the cranberries. Very wonderful and a great change from the usual Christmas cookies! I will be keeping this recipe for certain! Thank you for posting.
These look gorgeous!! I bet they are so delicious with the almonds!
I love florentines. Just discovered them 2 weeks ago when customers at my local baking shop recommended the pre-mix to me. They are so tempting that I can't seem to put them down. And sinful too. But definitely yummmmmy!
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