Hi foodtubers my name is Sharon Hearne- Smith and I hold the secret to baking
without using the oven. Right now I'm gonna 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 to start off this one pan wonder
I'm going to pop some butter into my pan, I have some
caster sugar and some yummy soft light brown sugar and this makes it
really lovely and fudgey. 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 so 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 colour coming through
it's going nice and golden, a really rich colour and that's what's
gonna give the biscuits their lovely colour. So the first
ingredient is gonna go in on top of that now which is creme fraiche
Keep it on the high heat once it's settled down from spitting
and keep stirring it and it will come good in a couple minutes
Now for the next lot of ingredients I've got some bicarb of soda
Just 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 volumises
the mixture a little bit
and then a little dash of vanilla extract for yummy flavour of
course and now we're ready for all these yummy nuts and fruits so we're just gonna
tip in all of the flaked almonds, these delicious cranberries
and some yummy mixed peel
and not forgetting
my favorite ingredient the stemmed
ginger so just really
simply give everything a really good stir up. See the way it's all starting 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 colour
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 2 tablespoons and pop it on the non-stick sheet or non stick parchment
paper
In little kind of clumps and them flatten them down
to make little biscuits
Okay so just pop all the biscuits out there
There's all our biscuits, I'm just going to turn off the heat
So like I said just need to wait for them to cool down a little bit and then I'm
gonna 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, don't they sound 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 I've just melted 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 bitterness of the dark with the sweetness of the biscuit
So give it a little squidge about, then pop it on the tray
and squidge it down
okay 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 in really nice little gift boxes and look at these little guys
I just making 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, aren't they 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 teacher's pet at Christmas
time and do a little parcel for the teacher or your favourite friend
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 flavour combinations that you made
how you how you got on with the sugar work and how they tasted and whether you came them away as
gifts or ate them yourself
so onto the subject this one
is for me
mmm
crispy nutty
gooey, oh hang on bit of ginger
hmm and that bite from the ginger
perfect mmm my perfect no bake
florentines