FILBERT FORM COOKIES

Ingredients:
Sifted all purpose flour - 3/4 cup
Baking powder - 1/8 tsp
Confectioners' sugar - 1/2 cup
Salt- 1/4 tsp
Cinnamon powder - 1/8 tsp
clove powder - 1/8 tsp
Nutmeg powder - 1/8 tsp
Filberts - 1/2 cup (grated)
Grated lemon peel - 1 tsp
Butter - 6 tbsp (chilled)

Method:

• Sift flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and spices together; mix in the filberts and lemon peel.
• Cut in butter until mixture becomes a soft dough.
• Cut off small pieces of dough and press into lightly greased fancy 1 1/4"* 1 1/4" cookie forms, or half fill lightly greased sandbakelser molds with dough. Set molds on a cookie sheet.
• Bake at 375 F for 10 minutes.
• Cool about 2 minutes on wire rack. With the point of knife, loosen cookies from molds; invert onto racks.
• Sift vanilla confectioners' sugar over cookies.