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

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.