Florentines with Dark Chocolate

Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:15:00 +0000

Florentines are the biscuit that makes people think you have hidden depths. They look like something bought from a smart delicatessen, all lacy amber caramel and jewelled fruit under a comb of dark chocolate, and yet they are one of the simplest things you can bake: a caramel melted in a pan, stirred through with nuts and fruit, spooned out, and baked into thin, crackling discs. There is no dough to chill, no rolling, no rest. From standing start to a rack full of them is under half an hour, and the only remotely fiddly bit is the chocolate at the end.

Gingerbread Men, Properly Spiced

Sat, 14 Sep 2024 15:15:00 +0000

Most gingerbread men are disappointing in exactly the same way: they are sweet, and they are shaped like a person, and that is about all they have going for them. The spice is a distant rumour, the ginger a suggestion, and you could swap them for a plain sugar biscuit and only the children would notice. It is a shame, because gingerbread has the potential to be one of the most characterful biscuits in the tin, warming and slightly hot, deeply aromatic, the kind of thing an adult reaches for as readily as a child.

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Florentines with Dark Chocolate

Gingerbread Men, Properly Spiced