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 cinnamon
 * 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 cinnamon 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 ½ inch layer.
 * 6) When the diamonds are baked, spread each of them with the apple paste to which you added 2 tablespoons sugar and cinnamon.
 * 7) Place the diamonds on top of one another.
 * 8) Sprinkle vanilla flavored confectioner's sugar on top.