Florentine Biscuits. Transfer to the baking sheet, and spoon some of the Florentine mixture onto each biscuit until it's all used up. A Florentine biscuit (or simply, a Florentine) is a sweet pastry of nuts and fruit. Florentines are made of nuts (typically hazelnuts and almonds) and candied cherries mixed with sugar melted together with butter and honey, cooked in an oven. They are often coated on the bottom with chocolate. Other types of candied fruit are used as well.
They typically contain neither flour nor eggs.
Florentines Recipe courtesy of The Great British Baking Show This florentines recipe is featured as the technical challenge in the " Biscuits " episode of The Great British Baking Show.
Crunchy and sweet, these Florentines Biscuits are a favourite classic cookie.
You can cook Florentine Biscuits using 14 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Florentine Biscuits
- Prepare of Sablé dough.
- Prepare 220 g of cake flour.
- It's 150 g of unsalted butter.
- Prepare 100 g of caster sugar.
- Prepare 1 of egg.
- It's 20 g of almond powder.
- It's 1 g of salt.
- It's of Appareil (topping).
- Prepare 60 g of granulated sugar.
- It's 40 g of unsalted butter.
- Prepare 60 g of heavy cream.
- It's 20 g of mizuame/honey/golden syrup/maple syrup.
- It's 20 g of mizuame/millet jelly.
- It's 150 g of sliced almond.
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Florentine Biscuits instructions
- Make sure all ingredients are at room temperature before starting. Sift the cake flour and the caster sugar separately..
- In a bowl, knead the butter until softened. Then, combine the caster sugar..
- Next, whisk the egg and divide into 3 portions. Pour one portion into the butter mixture, mix, then repeat with the other two portions. Keep mixing until it starts to look like mayonnaise..
- Combine the almond powder and salt in the butter mixture and mix..
- Add the cake flour into the mixture in 3 portions, mixing/folding in between (as if you’re cutting the dough)..
- Spread the dough between cling wrap (bottom) and parchment paper (top) and flatten the dough into a 28x28cm square using a rolling pin..
- Flip the dough around so the parchment paper is on the bottom and place in fridge to chill for a minimum of 1 hour..
- After the dough has had time to rest, preheat the oven to 180°C. Then, take the dough out from the fridge and poke holes in it using a fork..
- Lower the oven to 170°C and slightly bake the dough for 18 minutes..
- In the meantime, roast the sliced almonds by baking them at 170°C for 8 minutes..
- Once about 10 minutes of step 9 have passed, combine all the ingredients (except the sliced almonds) from the appareil section in a pot and simmer over medium heat for about 5 minutes..
- Then, after about 5 minutes, add the baked sliced almonds. The appareil mixture and the sablé dough should be finished at the same time..
- Next, spread the appareil mixture over the sablé dough..
- Bake the dough with the appareil for about 20 minutes at 160°C. Make sure to cut the florentines into squares before it completely cools down to prevent it from cracking. You should start cutting while it’s still warm..
Remove the Florentines from the oven, and allow them to cool completely on the pan. When the Florentines are completely cool, melt the chocolate, either in a microwave, or over very low heat. Brush the melted chocolate onto the flat (bottom) of each cookie, placing them, chocolate side up, on a rack to set. Our pleasantly sticky and marvellously moreish Florentines come in a range of extraordinary flavours. They look simple enough, but when the normally calm Delia Smith is moved to hyperbole such as: "If there was a prize for the very best biscuit in the world, one bite of a florentine would tell.