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Poor Man's Florentines

A simple traybake made with digestive biscuits, nuts, cherries and condensed milk.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine british, Irish
Servings 9 squares

Ingredients
  

  • 8 oz or 225g crushed digestives/graham crackers
  • 1 oz or 30g brown sugar
  • 4 oz or 110g butter melted
  • 4 oz or 110g glacé/candied cherries chopped
  • 4 oz or 110g walnuts chopped
  • 2 oz or 55g sliced almonds
  • ½ tin of condensed milk approx. 7fl oz/200g

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 325F/160C (conventional oven). Line a 8in/20cm square tin with baking parchment.
  • Crush the Digestive biscuits and mix with the sugar. Melt the butter and pour over the biscuits and sugar. Press firmly into a traybake tin.
  • Spread the chopped nuts and cherries over the top of the biscuit base.
  • Drizzle the condensed milk evenly over the nuts and cherries.
  • Bake for 35-40 minutes until golden brown.
  • Leave in the tin to cool before cutting into squares.

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Keyword almonds, cherries, condensed milk, traybake, walnuts