Florentine Fantasies

Recipe Ingredients

1/2 cup	99g / 3.5oz	Butter - (1 stick)
2/3 cup	218g / 7.7oz	Light corn syrup
1		Sliced almonds - (3.25 oz) - preferably blanched
1 cup	62g / 2.2oz	All-purpose flour
1/2 cup	80g / 2.8oz	Golden raisins
1 tablespoon	15ml	Lemon juice
1/2 cup	31g / 1.1oz	Chopped candied red cherries
		(or a mixture of red and green cherries)
4 oz	113g	Semisweet chocolate

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

In a 1-quart saucepan, heat butter and corn syrup until butter melts. Remove from heat. Stir in almonds, flour, raisins, lemon juice and cherries. Let stand 10 minutes.

Drop mixture, a tablespoonful at a time, on foil-lined cookie sheets, leaving about 2 inches between cookies to allow them to spread Bake 12 minutes. Remove to wire rack.

When cookies are completely cool, melt chocolate. Spread chocolate on bottom of cookies. While chocolate is still warm, score the cookie backs with fork tines. Let chocolate harden.

Store cookies in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

Yields about 2 1/2 dozen.

Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 12-07-1998 - This is adapted slightly from a recipe printed in the Milwaukee Journal several years ago

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