[Sca-cooks] Holidays

[Christiane]

I haven't done much holiday baking at all this year. But last night I made chocolate chip cookies and an orange cardomom poundcake. I'm rather proud of the latter; I took the standard sour cream poundcake from the Good Housekeeping cookbook and modified it. Instead of just flavoring it with vanilla, I added 1/4 teaspoon orange essence and the ground seeds from three cardamom pods, and glazed it while it was hot with a mix of mandarin orange juice and sugar and ginger. Oh, also, I didn't have any sour cream in the house, but nonfat plain Greek yogurt worked very well.

I think I'll bake another one tonight. And more cookies.

Adelisa