Hazelnut Spritz Cookies

Ingredients

• 2/3 Cup Chopped hazelnuts, Toasted
• 2 Cups flour
• 3/4 Tsp baking powder
• 1/8 Tsp salt
• 2 Sticks unsalted butter
• 3/4 Cups sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 Tsp vanilla

Also needed

• A Cookie Press With Decorative Disks
• Decorating Colored Sugars and nonpareils

Directions

1. Heat oven to 350 F.
2. Pulse nuts and 1/4 cup flour in Food Processor util finely ground.
3. Whisk nuts, remaining flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl to mix.
4. Beat butter, sugar, egg and vanilla in a bowl until fluffy
5. Beat in the flour mixture to form a soft dough
6. Divide in fourths, and do not chill
7. Place dough into a cookie press and press out cookies on ungreased baking sheets.
8. Sprinkle with sugar and nonpareils.
9. Bake 12 minutes or until golden at edges.
10. Cool Completely.