John Whaite's salted peanut and chocolate Florentines recipe
- 60 g (2.1oz) unsalted butter
- 60 g (2.1oz) light brown muscovado sugar
- 2 tsp liquid glucose
- 4 dried apricots, finely chopped
- 150 g (5.3oz) salted peanuts, roughly crushed
- 1 tbsp plain flour
- 100 g (3.5oz) dark chocolate, broken up
- Preheat the oven to 180C/gas mark 4.
- Place the butter, sugar and glucose in a small saucepan and set over a medium heat, stirring until everything has melted and is mixed together.
- Remove the pan from the heat and add the remaining ingredients, stirring well until everything is well mixed and the peanuts and apricots are coated in the sweet, buttery syrup.
- Dollop teaspoons of the mixture on to the lined baking sheets, leaving large gaps between each to allow the florentines to spread as they bake.
- Bake for 68 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and leave to cool on the baking sheets.
- Once cool, the Florentines should be bronzed and hard.
- Gently peel the baking paper from them and line them up on a wire cooling rack, with a sheet of foil underneath .
- Melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a pan of barely simmering water then drizzle, pour or dollop this over the Florentines and allow to set.
butter, light brown muscovado sugar, glucose, peanuts, flour, chocolate
Taken from www.lovefood.com/guide/recipes/44250/john-whaites-salted-peanut-and-chocolate-florentines-recipe (may not work)