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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Cardamom Cookies


I recently had the pleasure to attend a potluck bridal shower. In lieu of gifts, the bride-to-be asked us to make a dish for the party and to bring copies of the recipes for all to share. Brilliant! The only problem was that I was assigned dessert and the boy is the resident cookie maker. Since I didn't think he'd make cookies for a bridal shower, I found a simple recipe for cardamom cookies in Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone. I love her dessert recipes because they are not fussy and not too sweet.


I made the dough at 11 PM in the evening - it took me less than 10 minutes to make the dough and to clean up. I rolled the dough into two 1" logs, wrapped them in plastic, and stuck them in the freezer. The next day, I took the dough out of the freezer as I was drinking my morning coffee. After my second cup of rocket fuel, I slice the dough in 1/4" coins, and popped them in the oven. Easy!


If I were to make these for just the boy and I (I can hear him saying "Yeah, right. You never make desserts for us!"), I would omit the powdered sugar dusting. They taste decadent straight from the oven. However, since I was trying to trick everyone at the bridal shower into thinking that I was a fancy baker, I opted for the topping the cardamom cookies with fairy dust. It worked! People thought I was some kind of baking wunderkind and I did nothing to dispel that notion.

4 comments:

  1. sounds yummy! I might have to make these! I also like to idea of using them as a pie crust like in the link.. and i bet it would make a good crisp topping..

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  2. Delicious!

    By the way, we adopted a teeny little old tabby cat - can't wait to start knitting her some head gear.

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  3. Yummy! I need to try something like this. I recently had cream cheese danish with cardamon worked into the pastry dough - it was really mild and tasted so good! I highly recommend pastries at the Driskill next time you visit!

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  4. I made cardamom ice cream for Thanksgiving last year -- it was AWESOME.

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/18/FD67140B3E.DTL#recipe16

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