Diamond-shaped Mazurka

Description
In Romanian: Mazurca in forma de romb

Ingredients

 * 7 oz/200 g butter,
 * 7 oz/200 g confectioner's sugar,
 * 3 eggs,
 * 1 cup flour,
 * a few ground cloves,
 * 1 teaspoon ground cinammon,
 * vanilla flavored sugar,
 * 1 lemon (grated peel + juice),
 * 4 lbs/2 kg baked and sieved (crushed) apples,
 * 2 tablespoons sugar

Directions

 * 1) Cream the butter with sugar and add the eggs one by one.
 * 2) Then gradually add the flour (like a rain), lemon juice and peel, ground cinammon and cloves.
 * 3) Have ready 8 paper diamonds (4 inch sides).
 * 4) Butter these paper diamonds and lay them onto a baking sheet.
 * 5) Cover the paper diamonds with the prepared mixture in a 1/2 inch layer.
 * 6) When the diamonds are baked, spread each of them with the apple paste to which you added 2 tablespoons sugar and cinammon.
 * 7) Place the diamonds on top of one another.
 * 8) Sprinkle vanilla flavored confectioner's sugar on top.