Mexican Wedding Cake Cookies

Cream together butter and powdered sugar until light and fluffy.

Mexican wedding cake cookies. Form dough into 1 1 4 balls and place onto parchment lined or ungreased baking sheets. 9 bake for 17 to 19 minutes or until the cookies start to brown slightly on top and are golden brown on the bottoms. Whisk together flour and salt.

Whether you call them mexican wedding cookies russian tea cakes or snowball cookies these delicate buttery cookies rolled in powdered sugar with many different names are a staple each year at christmas. When cookies are cool roll in confectioners sugar. Key ingredients in mexican wedding cakes are pretty basic.

10 while the cookies are still warm roll each cookie in the powdered sugar again. Stir in flour nuts and salt until dough holds together. Add gradually to butter mixture.

But they re also sometimes called polvorones butterballs snowballs and meltaways. Preheat oven to 400 degrees f. Pre heat oven to 325 f.

You can use almonds pecans or even macadamia nuts depending on your personal preferences. In a large bowl combine 1 2 cup powdered sugar butter and vanilla. Shape dough into balls or crescents.

These cookies go by about half a dozen names the most common among them being mexican wedding cookies and russian tea cakes. Shape into 1 inch balls. So many cultures have some version of them which makes sense because it s a formula that works.