Description
Delicate but very flavorful florentine cookies.
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon shortening, or as needed
- ½ cup whipping cream
- 3 tablespoons white sugar
- ¼ pound chopped candied orange peel
- ½ cup all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
- ⅓ cup slivered almonds
- 4 ounces semisweet chocolate, melted
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease baking sheets with shortening and dust with flour.
- 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.
- Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown
- 10 to 15 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and let cool completely on a wire rack
- about 30 minutes.
- 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.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Total Time: 1 hr
Servings: 30