Spice Cookies

Variety is the spice of life. That gives it all its flavour.

- William Cowper

Spice is to a chef as a colour palette is to an artist.

This are the tools available to us for delivering that special flavor in a particular dish.

We experimented the unique characteristics of certain spices with this simple cookie recipe: 

Cookies with Spice

125 mL Sugar

125mL Margarine

½ Egg

15mL Corn Syrup

2mL Baking Soda

5mL Salt

325mL Flour

METHOD:

1) Cream together the sugar and margarine in a large bowl, add the egg and the corn syrup.

2) In a second bowl, mix together the flour, salt and baking soda and add it gradually to the liquid ingredients, mixing well until it forms into a ball.

3) Chill the dough for about 10 minutes in the freezer or 1 hour in the refrigerator.

4) Roll out the dough in between two pieces of wax paper and cut into shapes.

5) Bake in the oven at 180° C or 350° F for 5-10 minutes depending on size until golden brown.

Here is our journey:

Our spices assembled, tested and characterized.

We added a pinch of each spice to a select cookie for our testing.

That's how we (or mostly Simon) roll.

Plenty of fun for the sharing.