easy pound cake – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen Making Every Day an Occasion... Simply Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:11:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-peonies-32x32.jpg easy pound cake – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen 32 32 Pecan-Cardamom Pound Cake (or Chai Spiced Pound Cake) http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/pecan-cardamom-pound-cake-or-chaispiced-pound-cake/ http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/pecan-cardamom-pound-cake-or-chaispiced-pound-cake/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:00:00 +0000 http://ingoodtasteblog.net/?p=96 In the beginning of 2009 I made a New Year’s food resolution to bake something with cardamom, and preferably something chai spiced. Truth be told, I didn’t even know what it was when I made that resolution over a year ago – I knew it belonged on the spice rack and I just liked the word cardamom. Cardamom refers to two varieties of an herb used in exotic cooking, often Indian or Finnish-inspired dishes. Cardamom has a strong, unique taste, an intense, aromatic fragrance. There are two types of cardamom, black and green. Black cardamom, which is more common, has a distinctly more astringent aroma, though not bitter. To me, cardamom is the coffee stand in the campus center where I went to college. My sophomore year dorm was a hop, skip and a jump away and sometimes I’d dash over for coffee and a bagel before my morning class (which I strategically always chose to start at 10am). Except, I didn’t drink coffee yet so my beverage of choice was always a chai latte. I’ve been wanting to make a recipe that uses cardamom for almost as long as I’ve been wanting to make a pound cake — but I’ve […]

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