While waiting for my filo dough to rest for our June bake, I figured maybe it was a good time to show you what we baked in May.
These were fantastic! Chewy with a crisp outer edge, nutty, fruity, with a touch of chocolate. Big hit at the office and at home! You can find the recipe here: https://www.pbs.org/food/recipes/florentines
I could not find candied orange peel at any of the stores so decided to make my own. Done it before, I could do it again right? Wrong, it was a colossal failure this time. Of course I only had one orange on hand and the store was a 40 minute round trip to get another one, so I did what anyone would do…I said “screw the oranges, I’ll just double the cranberries!”.
Other than the orange thing, this recipe was super easy with minimal clean up. Makes you wonder how that tiny bit of batter is going to make 18 cookies, but it did. I was tempted to use more than a teaspoon per cookie but was glad I didn’t, because these were perfect.
Double crans, walnuts, almonds 
Chop them all together…less sticky on your knife.
Love my little scale, I can measure like the pros! 
Making the batter base.
Mix them together…
Looks a little like oatmeal. 
That’s it for clean up!
You already know I didn’t use oranges, I also substituted turbinado sugar for the demerara and light corn syrup for the golden syrup. If you live in a larger metro area with specialty food stores you might be able to find those items, and you can certainly order them online if you want to follow the recipe to the T. But I’m telling you, these were fantastic even without the expensive ingredients (expensive to us, I think they are just normal ingredients to the Brits).
Weird looking little…. 
dough balls
Space far apart so they have room to spread. 
As for Eric, he decided to add mini peanut butter and chocolate chips to his batter and ditch the fruit and nuts, which sounds amazing, but when he added the chips to the warm batter, they all melted and made the batter runnier. Second time around, he froze the chips before adding and they stayed together. Kid never did like nuts in his cookies. His final comment was that his cookies were really sweet. Mine weren’t so must have been the chips??
These ones were just with 
peanut butter chips…not frozen
Using the frozen chips. 
Spreading the bottom layer of chocolate.
