Black Cardamom and Toasted Almond Chocolate Chip Cookies

These chocolate chip cookies sound wild but I promise you they’re amazing! If you love savory sweet or miso chocolate chip cookies, this recipe is for you! These cookies are smoky, savory, and sweet! I used ground black cardamom and lapsang souchong tea to add smokiness. I then added super-roasted almonds to the mix for some nuttiness. The combination is unreal!

I highly recommend grinding your black cardamom yourself. Black cardamom is different than green cardamom in that it’s larger, and has a smokiness to it that green cardamom does not. It pairs really well with lapsang souchong tea. Lapsang souchong tea is a type of black tea that is dried via smoking over a fire (typically made from pine). It originates from China and it has a wonderful sweet barbecue and wood-smoked flavor. You can find it on Amazon, but feel free to omit the tea id you can’t get your hands on it! 

 

I paired the smokey black cardamom and lapsang souchong tea with toasted almonds. I roasted the almonds until they were almost burnt. I love the nuttiness and aroma that comes from toasted almonds and it tempers the smokey, savory flavor of the cookies. 

 

These chocolate chip cookies have a lovely savoriness and sweetness to them. It’s truly balanced and I will 100% be making these more often! 

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