Heavenly Cardamom Caramel Sauce

A Recipe Exclusively For Founding Members

Good morning Friends,

This exclusive recipe comes with a bonus announcement for all subscribers:

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I love writing that feature, but it is memoir/epistolary content for a specific audience. I’m excited about the direction, but I realize it’s time to protect the space where I write about myself and my kid. I wrestled with this decision for a long time because I don’t want to charge for my content here.

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I developed this recipe as a quick caramel sauce topping for desserts, but I have found it has many outrageously good applications. It doesn’t have a fancy clickbait name (yet), but I’m calling it, “Heavenly Quick Cardamom Caramel Sauce”

This recipe is very similar to the microwave caramel sauce we made for the Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe. The only bad news is that making this recipe requires three special ingredients: cardamom pods, homemade vanilla extract, and lots of time.

Most of you don’t know this, but during the last five years I worked as an executive in the food industry. Part of my job was menu development, dish photography, and marketing. Yes, this extract recipe is a little extra, but honey, you deserve it.

Cardamom Vanilla Extract might be my new favorite gift to myself, but no doubt about it, this is a long game project. If you live locally, come on over and I’ll make you something delicious. You can skip doing it yourself.