what I do on a snow day, pts. 2 and 3

Since it looks as if Spring is finally here with no take-backsies 🌷, I thought I'd better hurry up and add this entry. A few weeks ago we had a snow day that ended up being a washout (so to speak), no school delays or anything, but I decided to go ahead and make these Chewy Molasses Cookies anyway. This wasn't the recipe I was planning to make but I changed my mind at the last second when flipping through an old Cooking Light issue. I just had a taste for molasses that week. No chocolate, no oats. And they were indeed chewy, with just enough sweetness to balance out the ginger. Why aren't they called "ginger cookies?" That's a good question. Maybe it's not enough ginger.

And then last week we had the one big snow of the season. A last-minute Winter dump. A foot and a half of snow. Luckily, thanks to the Spring sun, that snow is just about gone. But on a cold and snowy day all I wanted to do was bake a coffee cake. I've been holding to this recipe for Cardamom-Crumb Coffee Cake for a while now, originally because I didn't have any cardamom, and then because I totally forgot about it. Recipes can get buried and lost for years before I get around to sorting them. I can't tell you how it tastes yet, though, until I thaw it out this weekend. Yes, sometimes I bake just to bake. So I'll have to update this entry later.

Update: It's a very pronounced cardamom flavor. I like to think of it as cinnamon's woodsy cousin. So if you're new to cardamom you might want to use cinnamon in the streusel instead.