Mexican Wedding Cookies Recipe Walnuts

Mexican wedding cookies are similar to russian tea cakes, snowballs, and italian wedding cookies.they are all butter cookies, usually made with finely chopped nuts—walnuts or pecans—which are finished with a powdered sugar coating.

Mexican wedding cookies recipe walnuts. Add gradually to butter mixture; My grandmother called them sugar butter balls. Commonly known as russian tea cakes they are also referred to as mexican wedding cookies.

Place nuts on a baking sheet and bake for about 8 minutes, or until lightly brown and fragrant.cool. This is a version of the classic butter/flour/powdered sugar cookie that almost every nationality has (polish wedding cookies, greek cookies called kourabiedes, etc.). Some years ago, when my son was still in elementary school and before we started homeschooling, we always used to bake these cookies for his teachers, and for our neighbors around christmas time.

Using one nut or the other doesn’t distinguish the two (or 10) different names, but does vary the color. These easy mexican wedding cookies have walnuts in the dough and are rolled in powdered sugar so they look exactly like snowballs! Mix flour, nuts, and salt.

These nut differences are only observed subtleties from cookie researching; As always opinions are 100% mine. Chill dough if it seems too soft.

Pulse the remaining 1 cup walnuts in food processor, about 5 seconds. Roll in confectioner’s sugar while the cookies are still warm. In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar at medium speed until creamy.

Makes around 40 smallish cookies. Once the nuts have cooled completely place them, along with 2 tablespoons (25 grams) of the flour from the recipe, into your food processor, fitted with a metal blade, and process. I got this recipe from my sil's mom nicki burnett.