The famous Florentine cookies are baked in the form of thin plates with slices of almond, similar to lace. Cookies are different rich caramel flavor, but can easily change its notes depending on variations in the recipe. You can, for example, add espresso to the dough and give it a light coffee aroma, or optionally replace coffee with any liquor of your choice. While warm cookies give it any shape, or sprinkle chocolate icing. And the most sophisticated sweet tooth make Florentini sandwiches, spreading Nutella on them and holding together two pieces among themselves.
Recipe author – Allison Robicelli – pastry chef, culinary writer
Time: 1 hour. 35 minutes Difficulty: easy Quantity: 48 pcs. The recipes use dimensional capacity: 1 cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cups (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1 teahouse spoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 165 gr. butter
- 1 and 3/4 Art. Sahara
- 0.5 tbsp. corn syrup
- 4 tbsp. almond needles
- 1 tbsp. flour
- 0.5 tbsp. fat cream
- 2 tbsp. l soluble espresso powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 0.5 tsp coarse salt
Recipes with similar ingredients: butter, sugar, syrup, almonds, premium flour, cream, coffee, vanilla extract
Recipe preparation:
- In a medium saucepan over medium heat, heat butter, sugar and corn syrup, stirring occasionally a large wooden spoon. After the butter has melted, remove from the pan from the stove and add almonds, flour, cream, coffee, vanilla and salt. Mix well and cool at room temperature. temperature for 20 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 175 ° C. Cover 2 parchment baking sheets paper or silicone baking mats. (Insofar as Florentine cookies are very blurry, you can bake only a few pieces at a time, so the baking sheets will be be used several times.)
- Using a small spoon for cookies or 2 tablespoons, put on each baking sheet 6 slides of dough at an equal distance. Bake until golden amber color for 10-12 minutes.
- Cool cookies on baking sheets for 3 minutes, then shift them with a thin spatula. To give them a cup shape put cookies on inverted glasses and gently squeeze. So that To shape the tacos, roll the cookies onto a rolling pin. To shape cigars, gently wrap cookies around the handle of a wooden spoon. To make sandwich cookies, just put the cookies on the board or on the table. After the cookies have cooled, it will keep form. Continue to bake cookies in batches. (Between in batches you do not need to wait until the baking sheets are completely cooled.) Cookies can be stored in sealed container for 2 weeks or in the freezer for 3 months.
