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 choclate so
all the edge is covered. Place on non-stick
paper till cooled.
