Name: Florentines
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 30
Ingredients: Shortening, or as needed - 1 teaspoon; Whipping cream - ½ cup; White sugar - 3 tablespoons; Chopped candied orange peel - ¼ pound; All-purpose flour, plus more for dusting - ½ cup; Slivered almonds - ⅓ cup; Semisweet chocolate, melted - 4 ounces

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20 min.

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Ingredients for - Florentines

1. Shortening, or as needed - 1 teaspoon

2. Whipping cream - ½ cup

3. White sugar - 3 tablespoons

4. Chopped candied orange peel - ¼ pound

5. All-purpose flour, plus more for dusting - ½ cup

6. Slivered almonds - ⅓ cup

7. Semisweet chocolate, melted - 4 ounces

How to cook deliciously - Florentines

1. Stage

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease baking sheets with shortening and dust with flour.

2. Stage

Stir cream and sugar together in a bowl. Stir in orange peel, flour, and almonds until combined. Drop batter in teaspoonfuls onto the prepared baking sheets, keeping each cookie well apart from each other.

3. Stage

Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, 10 to 15 minutes.

4. Stage

Remove from the oven and let cool completely on a wire rack, about 30 minutes.

5. Stage

Spread bottoms of cooled cookies with melted chocolate using a spatula, or spear cookies on a fork and dip bottoms into chocolate. Let dry, bottoms-up, on waxed paper.