Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Cardamom Cookies


Last week,while planning our trip to bangalore,I decided to bake some cookies for my two little nieces who love cookies made by their “deepachi”[Divya pachi-aunt] and eyeing the nuts event going on in blogosphere,decided to bake one using walnuts.I added some choco chips too and waited to see them picking those nuts first before eating the cookies;-).As I was preheating the oven,there was some odd smell coming out and I realized that my oven had just conked off.I felt really sad and packed the cookie dough in a cling film and stashed it away into the freezer.

As bad luck would have it,my fridge was also giving some problems and to play it safe,I transferred the cookie dough to my friends freezer[its still fine btw,so I know I can freeze the dough too].Everything’s been repaired and to check whether the oven was fine,I had to bake something.Since my friend was not at home I decided to make a fresh cookie.I was impatient to check whether the oven was in working condition and planned to make a simple butter cookie.While powdering the sugar,I remembered Lakshmi’s Cinnamon cookies,I wanted a small twist and added some crushed cardamom seeds instead of cinnamon and made a fine powder.Hence am calling these Cardamom cookies!!

I have added cardamom to both the nankhatais I made and I simply love the distinct taste of cardamom in any sweet preparation,it instantly peps me up.It also gives me the sense of having a dessert and I think nothing can beat that feeling!!I totally loved the cookie and I am planning to add cardamom everytime I bake cookies since it gives such a nice flavor to the cookies without the dominating taste.

Cardamom Cookies

Ingredients


Maida/Flour – 1 ¼ cup
Butter,softened – ½ cup
Sugar – ¾ cup
Crushed cardamom seeds – 1 tsp

Method

Preheat oven to 150*C.
Powder the sugar with the cardamom seeds to get a fine powder.
Mix with the butter till it becomes creamy.
Slowly add the flour and knead till it forms a soft dough.
You can add few tbsp milk if the dough is dry and add few tbsp flour if the dough is sticky.
Make small balls of the mix and flatten a bit.

Place on a greased baking tray and bake for 20 minutes or till done.

I also revisited my first cookie-Malai cookies using Amul Cream.It came out better than the first time I made it,this time I sprinkled some powdered cardamom on top.

22 comments :

  1. The naankhatais are looking perfect and mouthwatering. I also like them very much.

    ReplyDelete
  2. I too love cardamom in nankhatais. it kind of lifts the simple indian cookie to a truly new level!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Beautiful cookies! Apart from Indians and Middle easterners, Scandinavians only other lot who use Cardamoms in their desserts. I made Cardamon buns once at Aroma. Looks yum, I bet your nieces were happy! :)

    ReplyDelete
  4. lovely, your kitchen must be filled up with the fragrance of cardamom, i love cardamoms cookies too!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Just 4 ingredients and you have such yummy cookies. I have to try this.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Love the aroma of cardamom..Nice to replace with cardamom..Looks lovely..

    ReplyDelete
  7. The malai cookie is very pretty Divya! Love card flavor too!

    ReplyDelete
  8. woo love this nice flavoured cookies..can have anytime..looks soo cute..

    ReplyDelete
  9. wow dhivya, cookies looks very delicious..nice click

    ReplyDelete
  10. looks delicious...sounds like nan kattai to me!!

    ReplyDelete
  11. cookies look yummy... I agree with you that cardamom gives a wonderful aroma without dominating the taste

    ReplyDelete
  12. Mmm.. Lovely looking! Tempting flavourish cookies Div..! :) U r a 'cookie queen'..!

    ReplyDelete
  13. i too love the smell of cardamon when you are making the cookie dough..it reminds you of a typical indian bakery..
    cookies look perfect....must have tasted great...

    ReplyDelete
  14. I love cardamom too. I feel exactly how you described when using elaichi. Ur cookies are looking superb Divya, especially the malai cookies..

    ReplyDelete
  15. Wow love to try this cookie.Love the aroma of cardamom.Good one Divya :)

    ReplyDelete
  16. We call Nankatai's as butter biscuit.You may visit my post to check the same.Looks wonderful,am sure ur neice wud have enjoyed them.

    ReplyDelete
  17. Wow they look delightful!! Nothing beats the aroma of cardamom :)

    ReplyDelete
  18. Cookies look great Divya, loved the malai cookies too..you've got amazing collection of cookies here :)

    ReplyDelete
  19. Cookies looks yummy.. And the taste of cardamon must have made it really great..

    ReplyDelete
  20. lovely cookies Divya! your kitchen must have filled with yummy smell of cardamoms :)

    ReplyDelete
  21. NEXTER..to make on my shd make lists! Tks for sharing!:D

    ReplyDelete
  22. Made these and they tasted yum !! Thanks for the great recipe :-)

    ReplyDelete

A blog is not complete without the readers feedback.Please let me know how you liked my post.Thank you so much for visiting my blog.

Love,
Divya.

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...
 
Pin It button on image hover