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 have Florentine Biscuits using 14 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Florentine Biscuits
- Prepare of Sablé dough.
- It's 220 g of cake flour.
- Prepare 150 g of unsalted butter.
- Prepare 100 g of caster sugar.
- You need 1 of egg.
- Prepare 20 g of almond powder.
- You need 1 g of salt.
- Prepare of Appareil (topping).
- It's 60 g of granulated sugar.
- You need 40 g of unsalted butter.
- You need 60 g of heavy cream.
- Prepare 20 g of mizuame/honey/golden syrup/maple syrup.
- You need 20 g of mizuame/millet jelly.
- Prepare 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..
Our pleasantly sticky and marvellously moreish Florentines come in a range of extraordinary flavours. Biscuits are one of our favourite things at Fortnum's, and we go to great lengths to ensure ours are the best. Crammed with the finest ingredients, our creations are delicious, surprising and extremely moreish. Spread a little melted chocolate over the flat base of each Florentine using a palette knife, and leave to set, chocolate-side up, on the cooling rack. These are luxurious biscuits, but you do need patience and accurate scales to make them.