Florentines Chocolate Almond Lace Cookies Recipes

CHOCOLATE ALMOND FLORENTINES

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack to center of the oven. Preheat oven to 350°. Arrange parchment paper on a large baking sheet and set aside.
• In a medium bowl combine the almonds, flour and orange zest. Toss to combine. Set aside.
• In a medium saucepan, heat together the sugar, salt, butter, whipping cream and honey. Bring to a rolling boil until the sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat and add the almond mixture. Stir to combine.
• Use a one teaspoon measure to drop exactly 2 teaspoons of batter into mounds at least 3" apart on the cookie sheet. Wet your finger tips with water and flatten out each mound (water prevents your fingers from sticking to the dough). Bake for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.
• Transfer the parchment paper with the cookies onto a wire rack and cool until room temperature. Transfer cookies to a baking sheet lined with paper towels to soak up excess butter.
• Continue making the cookies in this manner using a fresh sheet of parchment paper each time for cookies to bake on.
• When cookies are cooked and cooled, use an offset spatula to smooth the melted chocolate onto one the baking sheet side of the cookies. Top with another florentine round and set aside to harden, several hours.

LACE COOKIES (FLORENTINE COOKIES)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with a silicone liner (such as Silpat®).
• Place almonds into the bowl of a food processor; alternate pulsing and running at full speed every few seconds until finely chopped and crumblike. Be careful not to go too far; you don't want them too fine and pasty.
• Combine butter, brown sugar, and honey in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir a few times and cook until melted and dissolved. Bring to a boil, then carefully remove from the heat.
• Add vanilla extract, salt, and flour, and whisk until smooth. Add chopped almonds and mix with a spatula until everything is combined.
• Drop eight uniformly sized, rounded spoonfuls of batter (each about 2 teaspoons, or 15 grams) onto the prepared sheet. Fine-tune the cookie shapes and make sure they are evenly spaced.
• Place in the center of the preheated oven and bake until golden brown and a bit darker around the outsides, 10 to 12 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through.
• Remove from the oven and slide the silicone liner off the baking sheet and directly onto the countertop. Allow to sit until cool and crisp, 3 to 5 minutes, then gently peel cookies off the liner. Repeat to bake remaining batches.
• Spread melted chocolate over the flat side of one cookie. Place a second cookie, flat-side down, on top to make a sandwich and press very gently to seal. Repeat to form remaining cookies. Let sit until chocolate has firmed up, about 30 minutes.

FLORENTINES - CHOCOLATE ALMOND LACE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F and line cookie sheets with aluminum foil.
• Cream the butter and sugar.
• Stir in the corn syrup and vanilla.
• Stir in the flour, salt, baking powder and cinnamon; add to the creamed mixture alternately with the milk.
• Blend until smooth and stir in the almonds. Drop by heaping MEASURING teaspoonfuls onto the foil-lined cookie sheets - 3 inches apart.
• Bake for 10 minutes until the edges are browned.
• Let cool completely on the foil.
• Then peel away the foil.
• Melt the oil and chocolate (of your choice).
• You can brush the bottom of each cookie with the chocolate or you can sandwich two cookies together.
• Place in a tightly covered container, but do not refrigerate.
• Place waxed paper between layers of Florentines.