baking in the name of science, again

[kareina]

lord_kjar and I did a major grocery store run today, stocking up on a fair few things that had been running low, and tossing a few impulse items into the cart while at it. One of the things that hadn't been on the list was the ecological cinnamon that we hadn't seen before, and, while we were at it, the ecological licorice powder by the same company. I don't actually like licorice, but he really does, which is why I pointed it out to him when I noticed it.

When we got home and put the groceries away I discovered that we had just enough of the almost empty sugar to mean that we couldn't quite put all of the new sugar into the jar. Therefore I suggested we make some cookies with the sugar that didn't fit, and, since we had the licorice, I suggested we try doing some licorice cookies, so that I wouldn't eat them.

He liked that idea, but couldn't decide between putting the powder into the dough, or sprinkling it on afterwards, like we do with cinnamon. Therefore we tried both--I mixed the butter, sugar, and eggs, divided it in half, put flour and baking powder into half, and licorice, flour, and baking powder into the other half. Then I rolled out the plain dough, cut cookies, and sprinkled them with the powder, and rolled out the flavoured dough and cut those cookies, too. He tells me that both are good, but the ones with the powder on top are slightly nicer. I am content to believe him--I have no interest in tasting them.