Bready or Not: Chewy Cardamom Cookies
Are you on the lookout for a new spice cookie recipe for holidays? Allow me to introduce you to something yummy.
I've mentioned before that I have a stockpile of clipped recipes. It often gets ignored because of the "OOOH SHINY" aspect of food blogs and Pinterest. I've been making a special effort to try more of those forgotten recipes--or simply shove them in the recycling bin.
I had a cardamom cookie recipe tucked away since 2005. My 3rd grader was a baby back then. We lived in our first house in Washington state. My husband had a second deployment looming. Life has changed a lot in the past eight years. I looked at the recipe and realized it needed to change, too.
See, I love cardamom. The problem with the old recipe was that it made crispy cookies. I'm not a crispy cookie gal. Gimme soft and chewy. Therefore, I tweaked the recipe by making it with a mixture of butter and shortening for texture, and then amping up the spices.
The result: plump, spicy pillows of pure goodness.
This recipe smells like Christmas. It tastes like Christmas. It fattens you up like a Christmas goose. It makes your pleasure centers of the brain light up like a Christmas tree.
Try it. Seriously.
Chewy Cardamom Cookies
Modified from Better Homes and Gardens, December 2005.
Ingredients:
1/4 cup melted butter, unsalted
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons cardamom
1 heaping teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup molasses [could try substituting honey]
1 egg, room temperature
2 1/4 cups flour
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon cardamom
Directions:
1) Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a mixing bowl, blend the butter and shortening until creamy. Add in the brown sugar, baking soda, cardamom, and cinnamon.
2) Add the molasses and egg, and once that's combined, slowly mix in the flour.
3) Using a teaspoon scoop or spoon, shape dough into small balls and roll in the cardamom and sugar.
4) Bake cookies for about 10 minutes or until edges are set and tops are slightly cracked. They will be pillowy--if too much so, flatten the next batch with a spatula or glass, if you wish.
Makes about 45 cookies, teaspoon-size.
OM NOM NOM.
I've mentioned before that I have a stockpile of clipped recipes. It often gets ignored because of the "OOOH SHINY" aspect of food blogs and Pinterest. I've been making a special effort to try more of those forgotten recipes--or simply shove them in the recycling bin.
I had a cardamom cookie recipe tucked away since 2005. My 3rd grader was a baby back then. We lived in our first house in Washington state. My husband had a second deployment looming. Life has changed a lot in the past eight years. I looked at the recipe and realized it needed to change, too.
See, I love cardamom. The problem with the old recipe was that it made crispy cookies. I'm not a crispy cookie gal. Gimme soft and chewy. Therefore, I tweaked the recipe by making it with a mixture of butter and shortening for texture, and then amping up the spices.
The result: plump, spicy pillows of pure goodness.
This recipe smells like Christmas. It tastes like Christmas. It fattens you up like a Christmas goose. It makes your pleasure centers of the brain light up like a Christmas tree.
Try it. Seriously.
Chewy Cardamom Cookies
Modified from Better Homes and Gardens, December 2005.
Ingredients:
1/4 cup melted butter, unsalted
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons cardamom
1 heaping teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup molasses [could try substituting honey]
1 egg, room temperature
2 1/4 cups flour
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon cardamom
Directions:
1) Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a mixing bowl, blend the butter and shortening until creamy. Add in the brown sugar, baking soda, cardamom, and cinnamon.
2) Add the molasses and egg, and once that's combined, slowly mix in the flour.
3) Using a teaspoon scoop or spoon, shape dough into small balls and roll in the cardamom and sugar.
4) Bake cookies for about 10 minutes or until edges are set and tops are slightly cracked. They will be pillowy--if too much so, flatten the next batch with a spatula or glass, if you wish.
Makes about 45 cookies, teaspoon-size.
OM NOM NOM.
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