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Christmas Recipes: Edible Gifts. No.1 of 8 - Florentines

Christmas recipe makes: 12 Calories per biscuit: 170 Preparation time: 15 minutesCooking time: 8-10 minutesNot suitable for freezing Christmas recipe ingredients:* cherries, 25 g (1 oz)* almonds, flaked 40 g (1.5 oz)* butter, unsalted 60 g (2.5 oz)* sugar, caster 50 g (2 oz)* cream, double 30 ml (2 tbsp)* sunflower seeds, 25 g (1 oz)* mixed peel, chopped 20 ...

g (0.75 oz)* sultanas, 20 g (0.75 oz)* flour, plain white 15 g (0.5 oz)* chocolate, dark plain pieces 125 g (4 oz) Christmas recipe instructions:1. Take the almonds and crush slightly. Prepare roughly cutpieces of cherries.2. Prepare a solution of sugar in the butter and bring to theboil. Away from the heat, mix in flour, almonds, cherries,sultanas, mixed peel, sunflower seeds and cream.3. Grease a sheet of baking paper and place heaped teaspoonfulamounts of the mixture from step 2 onto it ensuring there isenough room for expansion during cooking.4. Bake till the edges are golden brown. 180 degrees centigrade(gas mark 4, 350 F). About 7 minutes. Take out of the oven anduse a plain large metal biscuit cutter to make rounds by pushinginto the biscuits. Bake again until golden brown.5. Cool for a couple of minutes before removing to a wire rackfor complete cooling.6. Rep...

...eat steps 3-5 for the remaining mixture from step 2.7. Prepare melted chocolate by heating in a bowl over water atboiling point. Then take each biscuit and dip it into thechoclate so all the edge is covered. Place on non-stick papertill cooled...