Christmas Recipes:
Edible Gifts. No.1 of 8 – Florentines
by: Paul Curran
Christmas recipe makes: 12
Calories per biscuit: 170
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 8-10 minutes
Not suitable for freezing
Christmas
recipe ingredients:
cherries, 25 g
(1 oz)
almonds, flaked 40 g (1.5 oz)
butter, unsalted 60 g (2.5 oz)
sugar, caster 50 g (2 oz)
cream, double 30 ml (2 tbsp)
sunflower seeds, 25 g (1 oz)
mixed peel, chopped 20 g (0.75 oz)
sultanas, 20 g (0.75 oz)
flour, plain white 15 g (0.5 oz)
chocolate, dark plain pieces 125 g (4 oz)
Christmas
recipe instructions:
1. Take the
almonds and crush slightly. Prepare roughly
cut pieces of cherries.
2. Prepare a
solution of sugar in the butter and bring to
the boil. Away from the heat, mix in flour,
almonds, cherries, sultanas, mixed peel,
sunflower seeds and cream.
3. Grease a
sheet of baking paper and place heaped
teaspoonful amounts of the mixture from step
2 onto it ensuring there is enough room for
expansion during cooking.
4. Bake till
the edges are golden brown. 180 degrees
centigrade (gas mark 4, 350 F). About 7
minutes. Take out of the oven and use a
plain large metal biscuit cutter to make
rounds by pushing into the biscuits. Bake
again until golden brown.
5. Cool for a
couple of minutes before removing to a wire
rack for complete cooling.
6. Repeat
steps 3-5 for the remaining mixture from
step 2.
7. Prepare
melted chocolate by heating in a bowl over
water at boiling point. Then take each
biscuit and dip it into the chocolate so all
the edge is covered. Place on non-stick
paper till cooled.
