Name: Deep-Fried Cardamom Cookies
Yield: Makes 60 Cookies
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cup [120 g] confectioners’ sugar, sifted, for dusting; 2 tsp pure vanilla extract; Vegetable oil for frying; ¾ tsp baking powder; 2 eggs, at room temperature; 2¼ cups [315 g] all-purpose flour; 2 tsp ground cardamom or cinnamon; 1 egg yolk, at room temperature; ⅓ cup [80 ml] heavy cream, at room temperature; ¾ tsp table salt; ⅓ cup [65 g] granulated sugar; ¼ cup [55 g] unsalted butter, melted and cooled

Preparation info

Makes
60
Cookies

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Vintage Baker

By Jessie Sheehan

Published 2018

About

I love all things fried and was so thrilled to discover that fattigmand, a traditional Norwegian fried holiday cookie was prepared by housewives in their mid-twentieth-century kitchens. Cookies: Westinghouse Christmas Cookie Cookbook (no date) has a fattigmand recipe using nutmeg. I substituted a generous helping of cardamom, and added it to the confectioners’ sugar that I sifted over the just-fried cookies for a spicier pop. Traditionally, the