Spiced Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies

These are chocolate-spiced cookies with yummy roasted hazelnuts, iced with a sweet-tart lemon glaze. The recipe, from Herta and Marion Bloch, is traditionally baked by their family as a Hanukkah treat. The Christmas cookie tradition in Germany is widespread and includes many varieties. It is so pervasive, as both a seasonal and a cultural tradition, that it was naturally adopted by Jews. There are innumerable varieties of spice cookies (with the most famous being Lebkucheri), and