Cherry Orange Florentines Recipe

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Cherry Orange Florentines
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Ingredients
9
Count
Nutrition
316
Calories
Total time
12
Minutes
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350*.
  2. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
  3. Place butter, sugar, heavy cream, and honey in a medium saucepan and bring to boil.
  4. Swirl pan around a few times to blend ingredients.
  5. Reduce heat until mixture is at a low boil and cook to 230* on a candy thermometer(if you dip a spoon into the mixture and dribble it in a glass of cold water, it will spin a thread).
  6. Stir almonds, cherries, candied peel, and flour into cream mixture with a wooden spoon until evenly combined.
  7. Scrape mixture into a bowl (it will cool more quickly) and allow to cool room temperatrue.
  8. Stir occasionally to release heat:mixture will thicken.
  9. Drop by generously rounded tsp 4 inches apart on cookie sheets.
  10. The rounder your drops the rounder and more attractive your baked cookies will be.
  11. Bake until an even golden brown(absolutley remember to shift pans front to back halfway through), about 12 minutes.
  12. Cookies will bubble and spread possibly lose their round shape.
  13. Place pans on racks.
  14. If the cookies misshapen, immediately coax them into a round shape by pushing stray edges with side of an offset spatula(or butter knife)dipped in hot water.
  15. Slide parchment onto racks to cool cookies completely.
  16. Meanwhile melt the chocolate in a double boiler over simmering water.
  17. Carefully remove cooled cookies from sheet with spatula or your fingers.
  18. Using a small offset spatula, spread chocolate over bottoms of cookies.Make a wavy pattern with a decorators comb or fork, if desired.
  19. Place cookies chocolate side up, back on sheet.
  20. Place in refigerator until chocolate is set.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 316.21 Kcal (1324 kJ)
Calories from fat 259.51 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 28.83g 44%
Cholesterol 63mg 21%
Sodium 5.86mg 0%
Potassium 80.74mg 2%
Total Carbs 15.49g 5%
Sugars 11.7g 47%
Dietary Fiber 1.11g 4%
Protein 2.02g 4%
Vitamin C 0.2mg 0%
Vitamin A 0.3mg 9%
Iron 0.4mg 2%
Calcium 25mg 3%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 570.19 Kcal (2387 kJ)
Calories from fat 467.95 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 51.99g 44%
Cholesterol 113.6mg 21%
Sodium 10.57mg 0%
Potassium 145.59mg 2%
Total Carbs 27.93g 5%
Sugars 21.11g 47%
Dietary Fiber 2g 4%
Protein 3.64g 4%
Vitamin C 0.3mg 0%
Vitamin A 0.5mg 9%
Iron 0.7mg 2%
Calcium 45.1mg 3%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 8.5
    Points
  • 9
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • very low sodium

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