Every time I'm bound to come back to Chicago for my in-between semester breaks, I always mean to eat out a lot and cook a lot. I've been doing a lot of the former, but not too much of the latter. I made these cookies following that exact recipe. The Spice House is an awesome store in the Chicagoland area that sells TONS of great quality spices at an amazing value. I'm talking prices are much less than your average McCormick spices. So I don't delve into a tangent, I'll have to save a review of this store for another post.
These cookies were honestly just ok to me, although my family did enjoy them. The cookie itself wasn't sweet enough, and the texture was a bit dry for my liking. The rose water icing, however, was what made the cookies at least somewhat enjoyable for me. It added a uniquely sweet flavor to the cookie. I was worried that these cookies would taste like flowers or handsoap/lotion, but thankfully, they weren't too floral in taste.
If I were to ever make these again, I'd have to play around and make some adjustments, most likely by either adding more sugar or some other spice/essence/extract to include another dimension to it.
I had extra rose water icing, so I decided to drizzle some of it on fresh strawberries. These were AMAZING. Rose water and strawberries might just be a better unique pairing than aged balsamic vinegar and strawberries. I'll have to indulge in rosewater&strawberries more before I leave for the Caribbean again.
