Last Updated on May 30, 2015 by Chef Mireille
Don’t you love it when a failed recipe turns into something just as delicious or even more so than what you had originally planned?
This started out as a recipe for Qureebaad, Somalian butter cookies. However, the recipe I followed did not work. The recipe called for putting together the cookies in the refrigerator log style. The original dough was only a mixture of melted butter, powdered sugar, flour and cardamom.
I followed the recipe exactly as written and shaped the dough into a log to be put in the refrigerator for 1/2 hour. A half hour later I removed the log from the fridge and attempted to slice the log into discs, but the dough was just crumbling – it would not slice. What to do? Create a new cookie recipe, of course!
Add a few more ingredients and create my new cookie recipe. WOW – these tasted so good and now they are a favorite with my family. Definitely a kid friendly cookie.
The bonus is they are so quick and easy to put together. The kids can probably make it themselves.
Until I perfect a recipe for Qureebaad, these will make a delicious substitute.
How to make Cardamom Butter Cookies
These make delicious holiday cookies.
These came out very good and they were gone in the blink of an eye!
Cardamom Shortbread Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter melted
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 2 tablespoons tuttti frutti candied fruit
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Place a piece of parchment paper on cookie sheet and spray with non stick spray.
- Melt butter. Combine butter and sugar in a large bowl and mix until combined.
- Add flour, baking powder and cardamom and mix.
- Mix until the ingredients are well combined.
- Take 1 tablespoon at a time and form into a ball. Place on the prepared cookie sheet and press down the balls a little. Sprinkle a little of the tutti frutti in the center of each cookie.
- Bake for 20 minutes, until the bottom of the cookies are light golden brown.
- Leave to cool. Remove from cookie sheet and serve.
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Wow, good that you were successful in turning that failed recipe to something delicious. Cookies look cute and those tutti frutti on top adds a nice contrast to the cookies!!!
Wow Mir! You have truly turned a disaster into a delicious treat! Looks really good. Am bookmarking this…
Mir, your pictures have come out so well!..great job!..bookmarked for sure!
Great and they turned out so well and I am going to try this recipe for sure…
The color contrast in those pictures is awesome. I like the way you turned a failed recipe to one that looks so wonderful.
Those cookies looks scrumptious, i can munch some anytime..
Cookies look wonderful. Happy to know you succeeded in turning the failed recipe into something amazing.
Wow that is quite a yummy disaster fix Mir. Cookies look colorful and delicious.
Cookies looks delicious .. They are colorful and perfectly done.
Beautiful clicks Mir!! Cookies looks very inviting. Bookmarked !