Lady Kisses -- a sweet almond / hazelnut cookie

BACI DI DAMA means Lady's Kisses. Once you make these cookies you will get lots of kisses from everyone.

1/2 cup of almonds (without the skins)
1 1/2 tsp of superfine sugar
1/3 cup (generous) unbleached all purpose flour
1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp potato starch
1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp confectioners sugar
7 tbsp unsalted butter , room temperature
1 large egg , lightly beaten (you will only be using 1/2 of the beaten egg. You can save the other half and use it in scrambled eggs. )
1/8 tsp pure almond extract
1 jar of chocolate hazelnut spread

Preheat the oven at 325 degrees

Place the almonds and the sugar in your food processor and grind into a very fine powder.

In a large bowl mix the almond/sugar powder with the potato starch, confectioners sugar, butter, half of the beaten egg, and the almond extract.

Using your hands mix until a dough is formed.

The dough will be a bit dry and a little crumbly.
Pinch off small pieces of the dough and roll into equal sized balls. You should about 60 cookie balls.

Place the cookies on parchment lined cookie sheets.
Bake about 15 to 20 minutes.

When done baking cool the cookies on wire cooling racks.

When the cookies are cooled spread the bottom part of half the cookies with the hazelnut spread and place another cookie over the spread to make a "sandwich" from the two cookies.