My Florentines

Name: My Florentines
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 120 grams Butter; 80 grams Sugar; 1 Egg; 150 grams Cake flour; 40 grams Strong bread flour; 1/2 tsp Baking powder; 50 grams Butter; 30 grams Sugar; 30 grams Honey; 30 grams Heavy cream; 100 grams Sliced almond; 1 tbsp Cake flour

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I learned the original recipe from a friend's mother when I was a student.. I arranged it to my own way after making it several times. There are many florentine with hard crunchy cookie bottoms, but I like crispy and soft cookies. So if you ask me about florentines, it would be with this recipe.

I used a swiss roll cake pan.
If the dough is difficult to handle at Step 6, let the dough sit in the refrigerator for a while and then roll it out with a rolling pin.
The filling gets hard when cold, so if you are making it for the first time, I think it would be better to bake the cookie bottom half way before starting to make the filling.
Use granulated sugar for sugar if you have. For one square cake pan or baking sheet which is 25 to 30 cm [11.8 in] in diameter. Recipe by Puru berry

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Ingredients

6 servings

Cookie dough
120 gramsButter
80 gramsSugar
1Egg
150 gramsCake flour
40 gramsStrong bread flour
1/2 tspBaking powder
Filling
50 gramsButter
30 gramsSugar
30 gramsHoney
30 gramsHeavy cream
100 gramsSliced almond
1 tbspCake flour

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Steps

1

Weigh the ingredients and prepare. Combine cake flour, strong bread flour, baking powder together and sift together. Bring the butter to room temperature.
2

For the filling ingredients, put all the ingredients for the filling in a pan except the almond and cake flour while weighing them. Then there would be less dishes to wash and you can save time and effort.
3

Coat the sliced almonds with 1 tablespoon of flour. Start to preheat the oven to 180°C.
4

Make the cookie dough. Add sugar to the room temperature butter and mix well. Then add beaten egg a little at a time and mix well.
5

Add the sifted flours and mix.
6

Line parchment paper on the cake pan, and pour the dough in the cake pan. Cover the dough with a cellophane wrap and use your palm to even out the thickness.
7

Depending on how soft the butter is, the dough might become loose. In that case, you can use a spatula to even out the dough.
8

Take off the cellophane wrap and bake in a 180°C oven for 10 minutes. It's fine if the dough becomes half baked like in the picture!
9

Make the filling. Put all the ingredients except the almond in a pan and heat over medium heat. When the ingredients become a little bit thick and sticky, add the almonds. Mix and then turn off the heat.
10

No need brown the filling, it will get a nice color when baking. The filling hardens as it cools, so pour it on the cookie bottom quickly so it coats evenly.
11

Bake in a 180°C oven for 15 minutes. Depending on the oven, the brown color might not be enough, so add 1 minute more at a time while checking how brown it's becoming.
12

When it's slightly cool, take it out of the cake pan. Line kitchen parchment paper on a cutting board and turn the cake pan over on it. Cut the florentine into the size you like while it's still warm.
13

It will become easier to break when it's cool, so I recommend cutting it while it is still warm. Let the florentine cool completely on a grill, and then it is ready.
14

If you don't mind the calories, make the use 150g of butter for the cookie dough I originally started making this with 150g but it became less and less every year. Now I use 120g at the lowest.