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Home » Lottie-Inspired Quarantine Florentines

Lottie-Inspired Quarantine Florentines

Lottie-Inspired Quarantine Florentines

Prep Time: 45m

Cooking Time: 8-10m

Servings: 15-18 cookies

Though Lottie used sour cherris, candied ginger, muscavado sugar, and pistachios on The Great British Baking Show, we omitted the fruit and switched out the pistachios with cashews. Still tasty.


Ingredients

  • 40g cashews
     
  • 20g plain flour
     
  • 30g cocout flakes
     
  • 120g flaked almonds
     
  • 70g salted butter
     
  • 120 brown sugar
     
  • Pinch of salt
     
  • 2 tbsp heavy cream
     
  • 125g 60% chocolate chips

 

Instructions

  1. Pre-heat over to 400º F. Line three baking trays with parchment paper.
     
  2. Finely chop the cashews into rubble and mix with the flour, coconut flakes, and almond flakes.
     
  3. Chop the butter and place into a small pan with the brown sugar and pinch of salt on low heat. Cook - WITHOUT STIRRING if possible - moving the pan around to combine until the temperature reaches 120º C. Remove from heat and stir in the cream.
     
  4. Pout the caramel over the dry mitxture and mix together well.
     
  5. Using a 2" circular cookie cutter, oil the cutter and place on the cookie sheet. Place 1-1½ tbsp of mixture in the cutter and flatten evenly. Repeat the process until you have 6 ccookies on the sheet, allowing plenty of space, as they will spread.
     
  6. Bake for 7-10 min (we found about 7:30 is right for our oven). Edges will start to brown slightly.
     
  7. Remove from even, then using the edge of the cutter or the back of a metal spoon, reshape the cookies into circles. Allow to cool for 4-5 min before removing from the tray and set aside to cool completely.
     
  8. When the cookies are completely cooled, melt the chocolate in a double-boiler. Brush onto the back of the cookies and allow the chocolate to set.