December Recipe: Florentine Cookies
Florentine Cookies (also known as Lace Cookies)
Perfect for dipping into hot drinks.
Christina Williams, West & Taylor
westandtaylor.com
These cookies are sweet, crunchy, thin and perfect for dipping into any one of your favorite hot beverages, including the many drinks available at Dirty South Pottery. They are a perfect mix of sweet and salty! These are not traditional Florentine cookies but they are my version of them.
Total Time: 30 minutes
Ingredients
- Cookies:
- ½ cup butter, unsalted is best if using salted nuts
- ⅔ cup packed brown sugar, light or dark
- ⅓ cup powdered sugar
- ¾ cup flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 TBls light corn syrup
- 1 egg white
- ½ cup sliced almonds
- ¼ cup salted pumpkin seeds
- ¼ cup dried fruit (cranberries, cherries, etc)
- Chocolate for drizzle, white or dark
Preparation
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Melt butter and combine sugars, corn syrup, vanilla together in a bowl.
- Add in almonds, pumpkin seeds and fruit to the bowl and then stir together with the egg white. I wait to add the egg white here because I do not want to add the egg white to the butter if it is too hot. The mixture of the sugars with the butter as well as the mix-ins will help cool down the butter so the egg white does not scramble.
- Once combined, add in your flour and mix until a batter is form. This will not be as thick as a chocolate chip cookie dough or the red velvet cookies; due to this it will spread. These cookies are supposed to spread and crisp.
- Taking a small cookie scoop or a Tablespoon, scoop out your cookies onto a lined or greased cookie sheet leaving approximately 3 inches between.
- Bake for 10 minutes, but check at the 5 minute mark. If you’d like to take them out at 5 minutes, you may, they will just be thicker in the center.
- Once your cookies have cooled, you can take melted chocolate and drizzle it over the cookies. This isn’t the only difference between a traditional Florentine and mine, but this is a big difference; usually you would spread a thin layer of chocolate onto the bottom of the cookies whereas I just drizzle atop it.
- Enjoy with a warm drink, dunking if you’d like!