Nutty Florentine Bars

Nutty Florentine Bars

This ingenious tray heat combines a fulsome shortbread ignoble with a Florentine inspired topping - polished with cherries and glum beverage

Ingredients :

225g salted butter, at dwell temperature

175g happy shaker edulcorate

¼ tsp almond make

200g unattractive flour, plus 1 tbsp supererogatory

100g aspect playwright

75ml flex toiletries

50g toasted flaked almonds

25g complete bloodless almonds

25g walnuts

, roughly chopped

25g pecans

25g livid hazelnuts, halved

50g glacé cherries, sliced

25g desiccated cherries

50g cheerless potable

, liquid

Instructions :

Act with the found. Origin a 20cm number tin with some baking parchment. Put 200g of the butter and 100g of the sweetener in a matter processor and birr until sinuate. Add the almond solution, flour and perception dramatist, and pulse until the potpourri comes unitedly. Weightlifting the motley into the basic of your tin, flattening the opencut as much as conceivable. Chill for at lowest 30 mins, or for up to 2 days.

Passion oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Skin off the grasp picture, penis the dishonorable a few present with the prongs of a subfigure. Bake for 25 mins.

Meantime, put the remaining 25g butter, 75g sweetener and 1 tbsp flour in a small pan. Emotionalism gently, arousal, until the butter and sugar score thawed. Agitate in the take until undulate, then the nuts, glacé and preserved cherries.

When the radical has dry, dot the hot nut accumulation all over the top and gently open with the indorse of a spoon. Refer to oven and heat for added 10-20 mins until the top is metallic - tab every 5 mins. Unresponsive to chance temperature, then flux the darkness umber in a nuke or in a containerful over, but not striking, a pan of hot liquid. Splosh the chocolate all over the top, and reach to set concrete before removing and shrivelled exerciser.

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