Healthy-ish Florentines

A healthy and more nutritious spin on the traditional Florentine.

Ingredients (makes 12 biscuits)

40g Butter
60g Coconut sugar
2 Tbs Agave syrup (or sweetner of choice)
50g Flaked almonds
50g Pepitas
30g Dried cranberries (or goji berries)
60g Buckinis
1/4 tsp Cinnamon
1/4 tsp Sea salt flakes
1/4 cup Buckwheat flour (or spelt/besan/plain flour)
100g Dark chocolate

Method

Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius & line a baking tray with baking paper.
Melt butter, sugar & agave syrup in a small saucepan, until dissolved. Remove from heat.
Add almonds, pepitas, cranberries, salt & cinnamon. Mix well.
Add flour & combine thoroughly.
Spoon heaped teaspoons onto baking tray & flatten slightly with a spatula.
Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on tray.
Once biscuits have cooled completely, melt the chocolate. Dip the under-side of each Florentine into the chocolate & leave it chocolate-side-up on a tray. Repeat for remaining biscuits, then place the tray into the freezer to set (about 10 mins).

Notes

NB: The biscuits will be very soft when you pull them out of the oven. Leave them to cool without trying to move them. They will harden on cooling. NB: Be careful not to put the biscuits too close together on the baking tray, as they will spread in the oven & you might end up with one gigantic Florentine instead of 12 individual ones. If this does happen, however, just use a sharp knife to cut or re-shape your biscuits while still hot (& before they cool & harden).

22 Comments

- - maddisonmelkie@gmail.com said
  - 30 Nov 2017
    7:14 am
This looks so delicious what a great recipe.

- - maddisonmelkie@gmail.com said
  - 05 Nov 2017
    8:42 pm
Wow these look super tasty would love to try to make these.

- - mom101628 said
  - 02 May 2017
    3:07 pm
Looks wonderful – thanks for sharing.

- - Some_Toss said
  - 16 Mar 2016
    9:21 pm
Yum, yum, yum! Thanks for sharing!

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 28 Jan 2016
    6:32 pm
these look fab – and who cares if they are not healthy!

- - mom19782016 said
  - 19 Jan 2016
    3:38 pm
Could you let me know what buckinis are?

- - linaianna said
  - 07 Dec 2015
    9:44 pm
These look really good thanks for sharing

- - mish06 said
  - 29 Nov 2015
    12:06 am
Florentine’s are my favorite biscuit, Thanks for sharing this healthy version.

- - silverfoot said
  - 25 Nov 2015
    5:31 pm
These look absolutely scrumptious! Yum!

- - robyn_smithwick said
  - 14 Nov 2015
    5:04 pm
A friend of mine makes these and they are the best!

- - mom90758 said
  - 29 Oct 2015
    2:39 pm
Buckinis? What’s that? Where do you buy it?
They look delicious!!

- - mom62624 said
  - 05 Oct 2015
    8:05 am
This recipe sounds delicious with a unique twist; thanks for sharing!.

- - robyn_smithwick said
  - 04 Oct 2015
    7:13 pm
Florentines! HOW DELIGHTFUL!

- - mom94125 said
  - 01 Oct 2015
    8:00 pm
these florentine’s look really good anyway
- mom94125 replied
  
  07 Oct 2015 , 11:08 pm
  well big cheers to you for sharing this florentine recipe with us. sounds so good and looks good for sure.
- - mom152736 said
  - 01 Oct 2015
    9:56 am
fab ! never tried coconut sugar… will be my first dish 🙂 thanks

- - Toni Rowland said
  - 27 Sep 2015
    8:41 pm
Delicious. Trying this one.

- - mom81879 said
  - 27 Sep 2015
    6:00 pm
Healthy-ish suits me. These look like yummy delicious little treats. Looking forward to trying

- - mom93821 said
  - 27 Sep 2015
    7:34 am
Yummy looking Florentines – thank you!
- mom93821 replied
  
  03 Oct 2015 , 6:56 pm
  I like the recipe with cranberries.
- - Mum of 5 darlings :) said
  - 25 Sep 2015
    7:12 pm
This looks delicious. Thankyou for sharing 🙂

- - jodiev1980 said
  - 23 Sep 2015
    6:48 pm
Yum! Lots of super food ingredients in these yummies