Sunday, August 26, 2012

Mexican Wedding Cookies (Snowballs)


Oh no! I start classes tomorrow! I have so much to do and already got assigned 2 chapters for one of my textbooks and some videos! I decided to post one last blog before my life gets hectic (as if it already wasn't!) It'll be short and sweet!

Here's another recipe from the wedding I catered. It's Mexican wedding cookies, or snowballs, or Russian tea cakes!

They're really delicious! It contains pecans which gives it a great flavor. Make sure to roll it in the powder sugar twice so they look like snowballs! :D


Recipe from Allrecipes.

Mexican Wedding Cookies (Snowballs)
Yields 5 dozen

Ingredients:
1 cup butter
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup chopped pecans
1/3 cup confectioners' sugar for decoration

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
  2. Cream the butter with 1/2 cup of the confectioners' sugar and the vanilla. Mix in the flour, nuts and salt. Roll about 1 tablespoon or so of dough into balls and place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
  3. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 15 minutes. Do not allow these cookies to get too brown. It's better to undercook them than to overcook them. 
  4. While cookies are still hot roll them in confectioners' sugar. Once they have cooled roll them in confectioners' sugar once more.

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