The Finer Cookie: Florentines

By Kimberlie Robert

When a Florentine is in the room, the bell goes off. Your focus glazes over into a Zombie-like emptiness where nothing takes priority over tearing apart that cookie. Your head and your heart dissolve into a milkshake of sorts, and all the agreements you made with yourself are long gone. These are high expectations, I know. Do they deliver? Well, once the soft tooth of the nuts are blended with the slightly crisp caramel, and the cookie collapses under the pressure, and the chocolate goes liquid in your heat, the promise is delivered and the abandon was worth it. You have just gone NUTS. Have you got the picture?

Click here for the Florentines Cookie recipe.

More Finer Cookie recipes:

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Currant Caraway Shortbreads
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Churros with Cinnamon
Pecan Polvorones with Muscovdo
Flourless Peanut Butter with Bourbon Soaked Peanuts and Smokey Bacon
Corn Meal and Olive Oil Biscotti
Browned Butter and Red Wine Brownies
Elsa’s Rye Cookies
Sweet Sheep Sugar Cookies
World Peace Cookie
Cocoa Swirl Meringue
Vanilla Ice Wine Tea Cookie
Sweet Potato Panelettes with Cardamon
Holy Mole Chocolate CookieSesame Seed Nougat Cookie

Photographed by Kimberlie Robert