All you need for 6 large florentines
is:
2 tbsp butter
80g golden caster sugar
2 tsp flour
75 ml creme fraiche - I used reduced
fat
2 tbsp mixed peel
2 tbsp stem ginger - the crystallised
stuff
50g glacier cherries
150g galaxy chocolate - roughly broken
into pieces
Let's get started...
1. Preheat the oven to 180 (fan
assisted) and grab a baking tray to line with baking parchment.
2. In a medium sized saucepan, gently
heat your butter, caster sugar and flour - make sure you stir it constantly or
it will stick to the bottom! The butter needs to have melted and the sugar
needs to be dissolved before the next step.
3. Stir in your creme fraiche - again,
make sure you stir it constantly so it combines properly.
4. Throw in your almonds, peel, ginger
and cherries - mix mix mix!
5. Place teaspoonfuls of the mixture
onto your baking parchements - make sure they're spaced out because it'll
spread as it heats up more and more.
6. Bake for 10-12 minutes (if your oven
isn't fan assisted you'll probably be better with the oven heated to 200 and
around 15 minutes cooking time - BUT every oven is different so always keep an
eye on what'cha got cookin') or until golden brown. Make sure you keep your eye
on them - as I said, the mixture spreads so you make need to intervene after 5
minutes or so to make them more circular again.
7. Once they're all nice a tanned,
remove from the oven and leave to cool down for 5 minutes or so before
transferring them to a cooling rack.
8. Once they're cooled, get to work on
your chocolate - grab a small saucepan and, with a little water in the bottom,
bring a little bit of water to a simmer. In a heatproof bowl that will sit
nicely on top of your saucepan, add the galaxy pieces and allow to melt slowly,
stirring until smooth - make sure the bottom of the bowl isn't actually
touching the water.
9. One by one, with the flat base side
up, spread the melted choccy over the bottoms of your florentines.
10. Leave them to cool and the chocolate
to set before serving.
Absolutely delicious with a cuppa or
great to make a bulk load for a party or Christmas celebration.
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