The entire first chapter of the book is "Light and Delicate." I've been kind of avoiding the recipes in the first chapter because, honestly, who wants a light and delicate cookie? Cookies should be hearty and comforting. I'm not really into these prissy cookies. And I always think they're gonna be way too complicated to make. But then I realized that if I keep putting them off, I'm going to end up having made every other recipe in the book other than these, and I'll have to do them all at once. So I figured I need to start tackling these recipes, and I started with Honey Florentines.
The recipe is like, nothing. Melted butter, sugar, and honey mixed with a tiny bit of flour. Seriously, it's like candy. I was surprised that they came out looking the way they were supposed to, but I really wasn't impressed with how they taste. They're too sweet. I have quite the sweet tooth and I almost never say anything is too sweet, but these were. It's nothing but sugar and honey, of course it's way too sweet. And they're crunchy but they stick to your teeth.
I decided the best use for these is to crumble them up and use them as ice cream topping. I know, that's my default use for cookies that aren't good. What can I say? I like ice cream. I just crumbled these up and I'm keeping the crunchy mess in a ziploc bag in the fridge so I can have it on ice cream.
Yield:
Recipe predicts: 2 dozen.
Actual: I don't know, I forgot to count them before I crumbled them up.
21 recipes down, 154 to go.
Recipe predicts: 2 dozen.
Actual: I don't know, I forgot to count them before I crumbled them up.
21 recipes down, 154 to go.
Interesting.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you could have added some chopped peanuts and more flour?
I'm allergic to peanuts!
ReplyDeleteAnd I think they came out just the way they were supposed to, they looked just like the picture in the book. It's just not a cookie.