Recipe: Baking Florentines at Christmas time
In addition to cinnamon stars, vanilla crescents and shortbread cookies, we look forward to another Christmas baking classic during the Advent season: Florentines. You can easily bake these cookies yourself and it's quick too. We reveal the perfect Florentine recipe for your Advent coffee here.
Ingredients for Florentines
100 g whipped cream
2 tbsp flour
2 tbsp sugar
50 g honey
50 g cherries
200 g flaked almonds
250 g dark chocolate coating
Recipe for Florentines
Mix the whipping cream, flour and sugar in a pan and heat up. Stir in the honey and bring to the boil briefly. Turn off the heat.
Stir in the finely chopped cherries and flaked almonds.
Using a round cookie cutter, make circles on a baking tray.
Bake for 15 minutes at 175°C (top/bottom heat). Leave to cool.
Dip the reverse side in melted dark chocolate coating.
