Cardamom Drops | Katla Kardimommudropar · 30ml

The flavour of Icelandic Christmas baking, in a bottle you can't buy elsewhere.

Cardamom is what makes Icelandic baking taste Icelandic: it runs through vínarterta, jólakaka, kleinur and half the smákökur baked between November and January. Ground cardamom won't do the same job; the drops carry differently through dough and give the clean, warm note Icelanders recognise instantly. This is the single hardest item on an Icelandic baker's list to find abroad, and the reason people give up and order from Iceland. 30ml bottle.

• Cardamom flavouring: the defining note in vínarterta, jólakaka and kleinur
• Behaves differently in dough than ground cardamom, which is why recipes specify drops
• 30ml bottle, the item Icelandic bakers abroad cannot source locally