My Florentines

Directions

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   Weigh the ingredients and prepare.
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   Combine cake flour, strong bread flour, baking powder together and sift together.
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   Bring the butter to room temperature.
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   For the filling ingredients, put all the ingredients for the filling in a pan except the almond and cake flour while weighing them.
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   Then there would be less dishes to wash and you can save time and effort.
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   Coat the sliced almonds with 1 tablespoon of flour.
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   Start to preheat the oven to 180C.
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   Make the cookie dough.
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   Add sugar to the room temperature butter and mix well.
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    Then add beaten egg a little at a time and mix well.
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    Add the sifted flours and mix.
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    Line parchment paper on the cake pan, and pour the dough in the cake pan.
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    Cover the dough with a cellophane wrap and use your palm to even out the thickness.
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    Depending on how soft the butter is, the dough might become loose.
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    In that case, you can use a spatula to even out the dough.
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    Take off the cellophane wrap and bake in a 180C oven for 10 minutes.
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    It's fine if the dough becomes half baked like in the picture!
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    Make the filling.
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    Put all the ingredients except the almond in a pan and heat over medium heat.
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    When the ingredients become a little bit thick and sticky, add the almonds.
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    Mix and then turn off the heat.
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    No need brown the filling, it will get a nice color when baking.
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    The filling hardens as it cools, so pour it on the cookie bottom quickly so it coats evenly.
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    Bake in a 180C oven for 15 minutes.
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    Depending on the oven, the brown color might not be enough, so add 1 minute more at a time while checking how brown it's becoming.
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    When it's slightly cool, take it out of the cake pan.
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    Line kitchen parchment paper on a cutting board and turn the cake pan over on it.
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    Cut the florentine into the size you like while it's still warm.
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    It will become easier to break when it's cool, so I recommend cutting it while it is still warm.
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    Let the florentine cool completely on a grill, and then it is ready.
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    If you don't mind the calories, make the use 150g of butter for the cookie dough I originally started making this with 150g but it became less and less every year.
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    Now I use 120g at the lowest.