Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, mum's mexican wedding cookies aka russian teacakes. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
But really the BEST thing about these Mexican wedding cookies (or Russian tea cakes or snowballs or whatever you want to call them) is their melt-in-your-mouth quality. Great recipe for Mum's Mexican Wedding Cookies aka Russian Teacakes. Melt in your mouth goodness :-).
Mum's Mexican Wedding Cookies aka Russian Teacakes is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Mum's Mexican Wedding Cookies aka Russian Teacakes is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook mum's mexican wedding cookies aka russian teacakes using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mum's Mexican Wedding Cookies aka Russian Teacakes:
- Make ready 2.5 C Plain Flour
- Prepare 1/2 C Powdered Sugar
- Make ready 1 C Salted Butter (Softened)
- Get 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- Get 3/4 C Finely Chopped Nuts (Walnuts, Pecans)
- Get 1/2 C Icing (Powdered) Sugar for rolling
Make sure to check out my Southern Tea Cakes Recipe too! Russian Tea Cakes are a classic cookie recipe that are known by lots of different names…Snowball Cookies, Tea Cakes, Butter Balls, or Mexican Wedding Cookies. These melt-in-your-mouth shortbread-style cookies usually include nuts or chocolate chips and are coated in powdered sugar. How to make Mexican Wedding Cookies or Russian Tea Cakes.
Steps to make Mum's Mexican Wedding Cookies aka Russian Teacakes:
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Chop nuts until fine and set aside.
- Mix powdered sugar, butter and vanilla extract together.
- Add the flour and nuts until fully combined. Dough will be crumbley.
- Shape dough into one inch balls. The dough should stick together as you form the ball. If not, add a bit more butter.
- Place on cookie sheet lined with parchment paper about one inch apart. Bake for 10 minutes.
- Allow to cool slightly on cookie rack. Roll warm cookies in powdered sugar. Allow to cool more and roll them again in powdered sugar.
Mexican Wedding Cookies or Snowball cookies or Sweethearts, whatever you want to call them, they are all the same basic recipe: a really buttery not-very-sweet shortbread dough, with chopped nuts mixed in. They bake up into a delightful little ball of a cookie that doesn't spread much. Mexican Wedding Cakes Recipe (or Russian Tea Cakes) Cookies One of my long time friends from college calls these delicious Mexican Wedding Cake cookies "butter balls". And for good reason: they are made with lots of butter and rolled in powder sugar that just melts in your mouth. They were known as Russian Tea Cakes then.
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