Best 5 Florentine Cookies Recipes

LACE COOKIES (FLORENTINE COOKIES)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with a silicone liner (such as Silpat®).
• Place almonds into the bowl of a food processor; alternate pulsing and running at full speed every few seconds until finely chopped and crumblike. Be careful not to go too far; you don't want them too fine and pasty.
• Combine butter, brown sugar, and honey in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir a few times and cook until melted and dissolved. Bring to a boil, then carefully remove from the heat.
• Add vanilla extract, salt, and flour, and whisk until smooth. Add chopped almonds and mix with a spatula until everything is combined.
• Drop eight uniformly sized, rounded spoonfuls of batter (each about 2 teaspoons, or 15 grams) onto the prepared sheet. Fine-tune the cookie shapes and make sure they are evenly spaced.
• Place in the center of the preheated oven and bake until golden brown and a bit darker around the outsides, 10 to 12 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through.
• Remove from the oven and slide the silicone liner off the baking sheet and directly onto the countertop. Allow to sit until cool and crisp, 3 to 5 minutes, then gently peel cookies off the liner. Repeat to bake remaining batches.
• Spread melted chocolate over the flat side of one cookie. Place a second cookie, flat-side down, on top to make a sandwich and press very gently to seal. Repeat to form remaining cookies. Let sit until chocolate has firmed up, about 30 minutes.

FLORENTINE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line 2 cookie sheets with aluminum foil.
• Melt butter in a large saucepan. Remove from heat and mix in oats, sugar, flour, corn syrup, milk, vanilla, and salt until well combined. Drop by level teaspoonfuls 3 inches apart onto the prepared cookie sheets. Spread cookies out thin with a rubber spatula.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, 5 to 7 minutes. Cool on the cookie sheets.
• Meanwhile, place chocolate chips in the top of a double boiler over simmering water. Stir frequently, scraping down the sides with a rubber spatula to avoid scorching, until chocolate is melted and smooth, about 5 minutes.
• Peel foil from cookies. Spread melted chocolate on 1/2 of the cookies. Top with the remaining cookies.

MILK CHOCOLATE FLORENTINE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line 2 cookie sheets with aluminum foil and grease the foil.
• In a large skillet over medium heat, melt the butter. Stir together the oats, flour, salt and sugar; mix into the melted butter until well blended. Stir in the corn syrup, milk and vanilla. Drop batter by teaspoonfuls 3 inches apart onto the prepared cookie sheets.
• Bake for 5 to 7 minutes in the preheated oven, until medium brown. Cool completely before removing from the cookie sheets. In the microwave or in a metal bowl over a pan of simmering water, melt chocolate chips, stirring frequently until smooth. Remove from heat. Spread chocolate onto the bottoms of cookies and sandwich them together.

FLORENTINES - FIORENTINE (FLORENTINE COOKIES)

Steps:

• Finely chop walnuts, almonds, raisins, orange and lemon peel, cherries, and ginger.
• Melt butter in a saucepan, then add sugar and stir over low heat until sugar is dissolved.
• Bring to a boil and let it boil for 1 minute without stirring (until just turning light golden).
• Remove from heat and mix well with cream and fruit-nut mixture.
• Spoon heaped teaspoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet (if you have a Silpat, use it!), leaving plenty of space for spreading- try only doing four at a time until you see how large they spread.
• Bake at 300 degrees F for 10 minutes or until golden brown.
• Let cool on cookie sheet for 1 minute before carefully removing with spatula.
• Melt chocolate in double boiler or microwave and spread thinly on flat side of cookies.

OATMEAL FLORENTINE COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. measure the oatmeal,sugar,cinnamon,flour,coconut, and almonds in to bowl.
• 2. melt the butter. Add butter,corn syrup,vanilla,and cream to oatmeal mixture and combine well
• 3. line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Drop dough by teaspoon fulls on to pan. try to bake only 9 cookies at a time. Keep at least 2 inches between each cookie.they spread a lot.
• 4. bake at 350 for 6-10 minutes until edges are browned.watch closely. they cook very fast. Remove from oven and let cool for a bit. Carefully remove from parchment with a metal spatula to some wax paper.
• 5. melt the chocolate in the microwave with the shortening. Set time to 2 minutes. Stir every 30 seconds until melted and combined well.
• 6. now the choice is yours. You can use the chocolate to top the sandwich cookie,or you can use the chocolate to fill the cookie. If filling cookie. Turn cookie over to flat side put a dollop of chocolate on cookie and press lightly another cookie on top to make a sandwich.refrigerate to set chocolate.
• 7. if using chocolate to top cookies. Just spread some melted chocolate on one top side of cookie. Refrigerate to set.
• 8. cream filling combine all ingredients and beat with mixture until smooth. top bottom of cookie with some,and place chocolate coated cookie on top. Refrigerate to set filling.