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Florentines Recipe Veg CD CBF Italian 50minsMakes approx. 30 Biscuits Cold Vegetarian Fruit Nuts Biscuits Cookies Baked Fayre Italy Europe Ingredients: 120ml/4fl.oz. Double Cream 100g/4oz Sugar 40g/1 ½ oz Butter 25g/1oz Glace Cherries 75g/3oz Finely chopped Almonds 100g/4oz Flaked Almonds 100g/4oz Crystallised Orange Peel, finely chopped 50g/2oz Plain Flour 225g/8oz Good Quality Plain Chocolate Instructions 1. Preheat the oven to 180C, 350F, Gas mark 4 and lightly grease and flour 3-4 baking sheets. Place the glace cherries in boiling water for 5 minutes then drain and quarter. 2. Place the cream, butter and sugar in a pan, bring slowly to the boil then remove from the heat and stir in the cherries, the chopped and flaked almonds, orange peel and flour. Mix well. 3. Drop teaspoonfuls of the mixture onto the baking sheets, spacing very well apart as they'll spread during cooking. Flatten each florentine with a wet fork. Bake in the oven for 5-6 minutes. 4. Remove from the oven and drawn in the sides of each florentine to tidy them up a little. Return to the oven and bake for a further 5-6 minutes until just beginning to brown at the edges. 5. Remove from the oven and allow to cool a little on the baking sheets before transferring to wire racks. 6. Once the biscuits are cold, break the chocolate into pieces and place in a heatproof bowl. Set over a pan of very hot, but not boiling, water and stir with a wooden spoon until melted. 7. Spread the chocolate over the smooth undersides of each biscuit and allow to set.
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