hi foodtubers my name is sharon home
smith and i hold the secret to baking
with a cheese in the oven right now I’m
going to show you how to no bake my
Florentine biscuits they’re really quick
and easy to make they’re my favorite
festive treat they’re great as edible
gifts and the best bit is that they’re
really chocolatey so start off this one
pan wander I’m going to pop some butter
into my pan I have some caster sugar
some yummy soft light brown sugar and
this makes it really lovely and fudgy
the top tip is to use a really high heat
and if you have one a heavy-based pan
but the heat is just really important to
have it nice and high all of the time
and just continue to stir it it just
takes a little while so this is where
when I first started working with sugar
I used to freak out a little bit because
I thought it had crystallized and it
does look a bit crystallized on top now
but actually just give it a really good
stir and look at all that lovely color
coming through it’s going nice and
golden a really rich color and that’s
what’s going to give the biscuits their
lovely color so then first ingredient is
going to go in on top of that now which
is creme fraiche keep it on the high
heat once it’s settle down from spitting
and keep stirring it and it will come
good in a couple of minutes now for the
next lot of ingredients I’ve got some
bicarb of soda it’s a little bit of that
and that reacts with the creme fraiche
the acid from the creme fraiche that
we’ve just put in and it just volumizes
the mixture a little bit and then a
little dash of vanilla extract for a
yummy flavor of course and now we’re
ready for all these yummy nuts and
fruits so just gonna tip in all of the
flaked almonds these delicious
cranberries and some yummy mixed peel
and not forgetting my favorite
ingredients the stem ginger so just
really simply give everything a really
good stir up you see the weight will
start to clump together these are going
to make our kind of clumps for biscuits
now it’s looking nice and moist and
nutty and fruity and can you see that
really rich color it is perfect to pop
onto our sheet now so here we go so just
get two spoons I like to leave it on a
low heat so that it stays nice and
sticky just kind of work as quickly as
you can with two tablespoons and pop it
on the nonstick sheet or nonstick
parchment paper and in little kind of
clumps and then flatten them down to
make little biscuits
okay so just pop all this goods out
there there’s all our biscuits I just
turn off the heat so like I said doesn’t
need to wait for them to cool down a
little bit and then I’m going to pop
them in the fridge and then we’ll come
back to them so here I have my set
Florentine biscuits not in the oven in
the fridge have a little listen does
this end nice and crunchy and look at
all those yummy and shiny nuts and dried
fruits I can’t wait to eat them but not
without adding a bit of chocolate so
just melt it down some chocolate in the
microwave so it’s nice and gooey and
I’ve used dark chocolate you can use
milk if you like or white chocolate but
I just like the business of the dark
with the sweetness of the biscuit so
give it a little squeeze out and then
pop it on the tray and squidge it down
okay so there they are all nice and
squidgy and chocolatey while they’re
just setting on the cold tray let me
just show you some little ideas if you
do want to part with them I’m not sure
that I can but you can package them up
and really nice little gift boxes and
look at these little guys I just made
some slightly smaller ones I still have
the dark chocolate look at all set
lovely on the bottom and then I just
drizzled some white chocolate across the
top and it just makes it a bit more
festive and snowy and Christmassy I
think cute and then these are the kind
of bigger regular ones again just in a
nice box of paper and look at this
little guy you could be teachers pata
Christmastime and do little parcel for
the teacher or your favorite friends if
you want to make your own Florentine
biscuits check out my book no bake
baking or my website all the details are
in the box below don’t forget to
subscribe and I really really want to
hear your comments all the new flavor
combinations that you made and how you
how you get on with the sugar work and
how they taste it and whether you gave
them away as gifts or ate them yourself
so onto the subject this one is for me
mmm crispy nutty gooey mmm hang on
bitter ginger mmm and a bite from the
ginger perfect mmm my perfect no baked
Florentines
you
smith and i hold the secret to baking
with a cheese in the oven right now I’m
going to show you how to no bake my
Florentine biscuits they’re really quick
and easy to make they’re my favorite
festive treat they’re great as edible
gifts and the best bit is that they’re
really chocolatey so start off this one
pan wander I’m going to pop some butter
into my pan I have some caster sugar
some yummy soft light brown sugar and
this makes it really lovely and fudgy
the top tip is to use a really high heat
and if you have one a heavy-based pan
but the heat is just really important to
have it nice and high all of the time
and just continue to stir it it just
takes a little while so this is where
when I first started working with sugar
I used to freak out a little bit because
I thought it had crystallized and it
does look a bit crystallized on top now
but actually just give it a really good
stir and look at all that lovely color
coming through it’s going nice and
golden a really rich color and that’s
what’s going to give the biscuits their
lovely color so then first ingredient is
going to go in on top of that now which
is creme fraiche keep it on the high
heat once it’s settle down from spitting
and keep stirring it and it will come
good in a couple of minutes now for the
next lot of ingredients I’ve got some
bicarb of soda it’s a little bit of that
and that reacts with the creme fraiche
the acid from the creme fraiche that
we’ve just put in and it just volumizes
the mixture a little bit and then a
little dash of vanilla extract for a
yummy flavor of course and now we’re
ready for all these yummy nuts and
fruits so just gonna tip in all of the
flaked almonds these delicious
cranberries and some yummy mixed peel
and not forgetting my favorite
ingredients the stem ginger so just
really simply give everything a really
good stir up you see the weight will
start to clump together these are going
to make our kind of clumps for biscuits
now it’s looking nice and moist and
nutty and fruity and can you see that
really rich color it is perfect to pop
onto our sheet now so here we go so just
get two spoons I like to leave it on a
low heat so that it stays nice and
sticky just kind of work as quickly as
you can with two tablespoons and pop it
on the nonstick sheet or nonstick
parchment paper and in little kind of
clumps and then flatten them down to
make little biscuits
okay so just pop all this goods out
there there’s all our biscuits I just
turn off the heat so like I said doesn’t
need to wait for them to cool down a
little bit and then I’m going to pop
them in the fridge and then we’ll come
back to them so here I have my set
Florentine biscuits not in the oven in
the fridge have a little listen does
this end nice and crunchy and look at
all those yummy and shiny nuts and dried
fruits I can’t wait to eat them but not
without adding a bit of chocolate so
just melt it down some chocolate in the
microwave so it’s nice and gooey and
I’ve used dark chocolate you can use
milk if you like or white chocolate but
I just like the business of the dark
with the sweetness of the biscuit so
give it a little squeeze out and then
pop it on the tray and squidge it down
okay so there they are all nice and
squidgy and chocolatey while they’re
just setting on the cold tray let me
just show you some little ideas if you
do want to part with them I’m not sure
that I can but you can package them up
and really nice little gift boxes and
look at these little guys I just made
some slightly smaller ones I still have
the dark chocolate look at all set
lovely on the bottom and then I just
drizzled some white chocolate across the
top and it just makes it a bit more
festive and snowy and Christmassy I
think cute and then these are the kind
of bigger regular ones again just in a
nice box of paper and look at this
little guy you could be teachers pata
Christmastime and do little parcel for
the teacher or your favorite friends if
you want to make your own Florentine
biscuits check out my book no bake
baking or my website all the details are
in the box below don’t forget to
subscribe and I really really want to
hear your comments all the new flavor
combinations that you made and how you
how you get on with the sugar work and
how they taste it and whether you gave
them away as gifts or ate them yourself
so onto the subject this one is for me
mmm crispy nutty gooey mmm hang on
bitter ginger mmm and a bite from the
ginger perfect mmm my perfect no baked
Florentines
you
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