Florentine Lace Cookies

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

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.

SERVES Makes 24 Cookies

TIME 1½ 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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