I decided to make these cookies for a bake sale at work,
starting with this recipe:

http://www.thespicehouse.com/recipes...cookies-recipe

Someone bought one of the cookies, then a few minutes later
came back and bought all that were left.

This week, we had another bake sale, and I made a triple
recipe. All but one of the cookies were gone by the end of
the day, and I got a lot of comments about them.

In the dough, I used the seeds from about 12 cardamom pods that
I got at an Indian grocery, freshly ground, instead of the
expensive flavorless grocery store pre-ground stuff. (This is a
lot less cardamom than the recipe calls for, but it calls for
the grocery store stuff. Some time ago, I made them with as much
freshly ground as the recipe calls for, and it was way too much.)

I used 6 pods or so in the powdered sugar, and then sprinkled
all the remaining over the hot cookies when I took them out of
the oven. (I'm not sure what the point of just dipping the
glass in the powdered sugar mixture is; almost none sticks to
the glass, and most of it would go to waste otherwise.)

A #50 disher is perfect to get 24 or 25 cookies out of
one recipe.

--
Mike Van Pelt "If they're going to talk about
mvp.at.calweb.com Camelot, then we get to talk about
KE6BVH The Lady in the Lake." - ?

Mike Van Pelt wrote:
> I decided to make these cookies for a bake sale at work,
> starting with this recipe:
>
> http://www.thespicehouse.com/recipes...cookies-recipe
>
> Someone bought one of the cookies, then a few minutes later
> came back and bought all that were left.
>
> This week, we had another bake sale, and I made a triple
> recipe. All but one of the cookies were gone by the end of
> the day, and I got a lot of comments about them.
>
> In the dough, I used the seeds from about 12 cardamom pods that
> I got at an Indian grocery, freshly ground, instead of the
> expensive flavorless grocery store pre-ground stuff. (This is a
> lot less cardamom than the recipe calls for, but it calls for
> the grocery store stuff. Some time ago, I made them with as much
> freshly ground as the recipe calls for, and it was way too much.)
>
> I used 6 pods or so in the powdered sugar, and then sprinkled
> all the remaining over the hot cookies when I took them out of
> the oven. (I'm not sure what the point of just dipping the
> glass in the powdered sugar mixture is; almost none sticks to
> the glass, and most of it would go to waste otherwise.)
>
> A #50 disher is perfect to get 24 or 25 cookies out of
> one recipe.
>
Those sound terrific!

--
Jean B.

Mike Van Pelt wrote:
> I decided to make these cookies for a bake sale at work,
> starting with this recipe:
>
> http://www.thespicehouse.com/recipes...cookies-recipe
>


Thanks, Mike. That recipe sounds like a keeper.

gloria p

On Oct 21, 1:04*pm, (Mike Van Pelt) wrote (about
Cardamom Cookies):
I am not familiar with Cardamom, can you offer what it may taste
like? I've googled and merely found uses for, but nothing about taste
or fragrance.

....Picky

PickyJaz wrote:
Mike Van Pelt) wrote:
>
>>Cardamom Cookies
>
>I am not familiar with Cardamom, can you offer what it may taste
>like? I've googled and merely found uses for, but nothing about taste
>or fragrance.
>
>...Picky


Like any other spice you'll need to taste it for yourself... that's
assuming that you're not afflicted with TIAD

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:07:41 -0700 (PDT), PickyJaz >
wrote:

>On Oct 21, 1:04*pm, (Mike Van Pelt) wrote (about
>Cardamom Cookies):
>I am not familiar with Cardamom, can you offer what it may taste
>like? I've googled and merely found uses for, but nothing about taste
>or fragrance.
>
Cardamom is one of those things that isn't like anything else. The
best you can do is find it and sniff it, but it will be a lot stronger
smelling than it is in baked goods and you might not like it based on
a sniff and no taste.

Google recipes for Swedish Cardamom Bread or Finnish Pulla bread. It
is divine and makes wonderful toast in the morning.

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

sf wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:07:41 -0700 (PDT), PickyJaz >
> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 21, 1:04 pm, (Mike Van Pelt) wrote (about
>> Cardamom Cookies):
>> I am not familiar with Cardamom, can you offer what it may taste
>> like? I've googled and merely found uses for, but nothing about taste
>> or fragrance.
>>
> Cardamom is one of those things that isn't like anything else. The
> best you can do is find it and sniff it, but it will be a lot stronger
> smelling than it is in baked goods and you might not like it based on
> a sniff and no taste.
>
> Google recipes for Swedish Cardamom Bread or Finnish Pulla bread. It
> is divine and makes wonderful toast in the morning.
>


Swedish coffee buns (bullar) are often flavored with cardamom and
topped with pearl (very coarse) sugar. They are rich and
delicious with coffee or tea.

gloria p

In article >,
sf > wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:07:41 -0700 (PDT), PickyJaz >
>wrote:
>>I am not familiar with Cardamom, can you offer what it may taste
>>like? I've googled and merely found uses for, but nothing about taste
>>or fragrance.
>>
>Cardamom is one of those things that isn't like anything else. The
>best you can do is find it and sniff it, but it will be a lot stronger
>smelling than it is in baked goods and you might not like it based on
>a sniff and no taste.

Alas for the sniff test, cardamom fresh from the pod smells
more than anything else like camphor. That's definitely not
what the finished products smells or tastes like, though.

It has a little of a similar character to cinnamon, it seems
to me. Kind of a similar "class" of flavor, but different.

--
Mike Van Pelt "If they're going to talk about
mvp.at.calweb.com Camelot, then we get to talk about
KE6BVH The Lady in the Lake." - ?