Florentine Lace Cookies

Name: Florentine Lace Cookies
Yield: Makes 24 Cookies
Ingredients: 2 cups slivered, almonds; 3/4 cup, heavy cream; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 4 pieces; 1/2 cup (3 1/2 ounces), sugar; 1/4 cup, orange marmalade; 3 tablespoons, all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1/4 teaspoon, grated orange zest; 1/4 teaspoon, salt; 4 ounces, bittersweet chocolate, chopped fine

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2013, America's Test Kitchen TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

Make Ahead

The easy part about these cookies is that most of the work takes place in a saucepan. The harder part? Perfecting their delicate lacy shape and glossy chocolate coating.

SERVESMakes 24 Cookies

TIME1½ hours, plus 30 minutes chilling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

These wafer-thin almond cookies have a reputation for being fussy and unpredictable, but we ensure success by making just a few tweaks. Instead of temping the hot sugar mixture that forms the base of the dough, we remove it from the heat wh...

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