White Chocolate & Cherry Florentines
Florentines are one of the best cookies ever in my opinion and should be eaten year round! This is a bar version so much easier to make and eat!
I do love a good Florentine, and may I say, these are amazing. I love the non-fiddly approach, especially as Christmas time just seems to get crazier each year … so whip up a batch of these, without the fiddle and you can be gifting in no time flat. The teachers are going to love getting a little package of these!
(Oh and don't forget to save a few for the fam bam, or there may be some household disappointment.)
Try some of our other Christmassy cookies as gifts:
Need
- 150 Grams light brown sugar (muscovado)
- 100 Grams honey
- 1 Teaspoon vanilla bean paste BUY
- 1 Teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 200 Grams butter BUY
- 300 Grams cherries of choice (dried, glace or combo of both)
- 100 Grams shredded coconut
- 110 Grams almonds sliced
- 50 Grams cornflour or cornstarch
- 250 Grams chocolate white callets BUY
- 20 Grams coconut oil
Do
- 1
Preheat oven to 180°C and line a 40cm x 30cm baking tray with paper.
- 2
Place sugar, honey, vanilla, cinnamon and butter into Thermomix bowl and melt 5 min/100°C/speed 1.
- 3
Add cherries and combine 3 sec/Reverse/speed 6.
- 4
Add coconut, almonds and cornflour and blend 3 sec/Reverse/speed 5.
- 5
Spread mixture onto tray and bake 12 minutes.
- 6
Remove from oven and cool.
- 7
Place chocolate and coconut oil into clean and dry Thermomix bowl and chop 5 sec/speed 5.
- 8
Melt 6 min/37°C/speed 1.
- 9
Flip the whole cookie off the tray onto a board and spread with the chocolate.
- 10
Cut into bars. Keep in airtight container in the fridge. You can pre-make these up to a month in advance, though be warned, you will potentially eat the lot way before that.
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Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
