I dearly love florentines, those Christmas-y lace cookies with a flavor punch of orange, drizzled with bittersweet chocolate. While they're undeniably one of my favorite cookies to eat, they're definitely at the bottom of the list of cookies I bake. When I do bake them, they're just for us--they're so time-consuming, they take up a lot of space during the baking and cooling and drizzling, the environment needs to be perfect both inside and outside the oven lest the cookies fail, plus they don't ship or store well, so why would I waste all that time and effort on something to share with people I only like? But they are so full of flavor (not just from sugar) that they're too good to not share, so I make these instead.

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