Florentine Cookies-Triangles
Easy and beatiful florentine cookies. Created for my family (Christmas 2010).
READY IN: 50mins
YIELD: 50-100 cookies
UNITS: US
INGREDIENTS
NutritionDough
- 50g butter
- 70g sugar
- 1pinch salt
- 1⁄2teaspoon vanilla sugar
- 1
- 150g flour
- 1⁄2teaspoon baking powder
Nuts and Fruits
- 100g butter
- 100g sugar
- 1⁄2teaspoon vanilla sugar
- 2tablespoons water
- 100g almonds, chopped
- 100g almonds, ground
- 50g candied fruit (mixed, chopped)
- 1
- 1pinch cardamom
- 1⁄4teaspoon cinnamon
- 3tablespoons apricot jam
- 100
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DIRECTIONS
- Mix all together with a food processor butter, Sugar, Salt, Vanilla and Egg.
- Add flour and baking powder and form the dough (if necessary add 1-2 tablespoon flour).
- Roll out the dough between 2 baking foils the dough to the size of 25 to 40 cm (10 to 15 inches). Remove the upper foil.
- Boil butter, sugar and water and add the almonds (both kind)and the fruits and the spices). Cool down.
- In the meanwhile spread the jam on the dough.
- Top with the almond-fuit mix.
- Bake 20 minutes at 180°C (350°F). Heat and timing are basing it on convection oven.
- Remove from the oven and cut to squares of 4-6cm (about 2 inches) and half the squares diagonally.
- Tip: Melt chocolate in double boiler or microwave and dip one point of each triangle. Let dry on baking foil.
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