Vicky's Florentines

Ingredients

• 60g butter
• 1 tablespoon golden syrup
• 60g demerara sugar
• 60g chopped glace cherries
• 30g chopped candied peel
• 30g chopped almonds
• 30g chopped walnuts
• 60g self-raising flour
• 180g chocolate

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 170° C
2. Line 2 trays with baking paper
3. Melt the butter, syrup and sugar in pan
4. Next, remove from the heat and add in the flour, almonds, walnuts, cherries and candied peel
5. Put teaspoons of the mixture onto the baking trays, about 3 inches apart
6. Pop them in the oven for approximately 10 mins
7. Melt the chocolate in a dish over a pan of hot water or in a microwave.
8. Once the Florentines have cooled, cover the base of each one with chocolate, using a fork
9. Leave them to set and enjoy!

Top tip: You can add whatever dried fruit you’d like. Or even crystalised ginger!