Sunday 9 November 2014

Florentines

Florentines (my version)

50g butter (I like slightly salted)

50g golden caster sugar

50g golden syrup 

50g plain flour or ground almonds

25g dried cranberries

25g sour cherries, finely chopped

25g dried apricots, chopped

25g blanched almonds, finely chopped

25g pecan pieces, finely chopped 

200g white chocolate 

Melt butter, sugar and golden syrup into a small pan over a low heat. Then stir in the flour and dried fruit and nuts.

On a baking sheet lined with baking parchment place small piles or the mix using two teaspoon. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 for bake for 8 minutes and remove from oven. Leave to cool for 5 minutes (not longer) and then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.


Once totally cooled melt the white chocolate in a heatproof bowl. Then with a teaspoon, put a small amount of the chocolate onto the back of each  biscuit and using a fork to make a pattern of ridges through the melted chocolate. Leave to set on the rack chocolate side up. 

You can also substitute dried blueberries, dried melon, mango or pineapple.