Florentiner

Total Time: 56 mins Preparation Time: 50 mins Cook Time: 6 mins

Ingredients

• 120 ml whipping cream
• 50 g butter
• 125 g sugar
• 40 g candied fruit, cherries or 40 g other candied fruit
• 100 g candied orange, finely chopped
• 100 g almonds, slivers
• 100 g almonds, ground
• 60 g flour
• glaze
• 200 g semisweet chocolate, grated
• 3 tablespoons water

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit.
• 2 in saucepan, combine whipping cream, butter and sugar.
• 3 bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
• 4 remove from heat.
• 5 add candied fruit, candied orange, almond slivers, ground almonds, and flour, one after the other to cream, mixing well.
• 6 drop by teaspoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet, leaving several inches space in between.
• 7 with fork, dipped in water, press dough to approx 5 cm (2 inches diameter) rounds.
• 8 bake 5 to 6 minutes.
• 9 carefully remove and cool on rack.
• 10 in the meantime, for the glaze, melt the grated chocolate with water in double boiler or in microwave.
• 11 after cookies have cooled, brush glaze onto smooth bottom side of cookies.
• 12 before glaze hardens, make a pattern by moving a fork across glaze.
• 13 die florentiner im 180 oc heissen ofen 5 bis 6 minuten backen.
• 14 mit einem spatel vom blech loesen und auf einem kuchengitter abkuehlen lassen.
• 15 inzwischen die feingeriebene zartbitterschokolade mit dem wasser vermischen und im heissen wasserbad schmelzen.