Amaretto florentine cookies
Yield: 2 1/2 dozen MM
Ingredients:
- 2/3 c Butter
- 2 c Oats quick; uncooked
- 1 c Sugar
- 2/3 c Flour all-purpose
- 1/2 c Almonds; finely chopped
- 1/4 c Syrup corn
- 1/4 c Amaretto di Amore
- 1/2 ts Salt MMMMM--------------------------FILLING-------------------------------
- 3 tb Butter
- 1/4 c Amaretto di Amore
- 1 1/2 c Chocolate chips
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Foil-line cookie sheets. In medium saucepan melt butter. Remove from heat. Stir in quick oats sugar flour almonds corn syrup 1/4 cup Amaretto di Amore and salt. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls 3 inches apart onto prepared cookie sheets; spread each to make thin. Bake 8 to 11 minutes until golden. Cool completely on cookie sheets. Peel off foil. Spread filling on flat side of 1/2 the cookies. Top with remaining cookies. Filling: In medium heavy guage saucepan over low heat melt butter with 1/4 cup Amaretto di Amore. Remove from heat. Stir in chocolate chips. Cool to room temperature. SOURCE: The Clarion-Ledger Southern Living Cooking School supplement September 11 1994. Typos by Nancy Coleman.



