I decided to make these cookies for a bake sale at work,
starting with this recipe:

http://www.thespicehouse.com/recipes...cookies-recipe

Someone bought one of the cookies, then a few minutes later
came back and bought all that were left.

This week, we had another bake sale, and I made a triple
recipe. All but one of the cookies were gone by the end of
the day, and I got a lot of comments about them.

In the dough, I used the seeds from about 12 cardamom pods that
I got at an Indian grocery, freshly ground, instead of the
expensive flavorless grocery store pre-ground stuff. (This is a
lot less cardamom than the recipe calls for, but it calls for
the grocery store stuff. Some time ago, I made them with as much
freshly ground as the recipe calls for, and it was way too much.)

I used 6 pods or so in the powdered sugar, and then sprinkled
all the remaining over the hot cookies when I took them out of
the oven. (I'm not sure what the point of just dipping the
glass in the powdered sugar mixture is; almost none sticks to
the glass, and most of it would go to waste otherwise.)

A #50 disher is perfect to get 24 or 25 cookies out of
one recipe.

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