Butter pecan snowball cookies (Mexican wedding cookies). We thought it was about time we shared the recipe to one of our traditional Christmas cookie recipes, Mexican Wedding Cookies (or Snowballs!). These shortbread-style cookies taste just like a pecan sandie, but instead of being hard and crunchy they are soft and buttery. These Butter Pecan Snowball Cookies just melt-in-your mouth!
Pecan snowball cookies are one of the easiest holiday cookies you can make!
These cookies are also sometimes known as Mexican wedding cookies.
Butter pecan snowball cookies (Mexican wedding cookies).
You can cook Butter pecan snowball cookies (Mexican wedding cookies) using 7 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Butter pecan snowball cookies (Mexican wedding cookies)
- You need 1 cup of butter softened.
- It's 1/2 c of powder sugar.
- It's 1/4 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
- Prepare 2 1/4 cups of flour.
- It's 1 c of finely chopped pecans.
- You need 1 c of powdered sugar for dusting.
Mexican Wedding cookies are super easy and are melt in your mouth delicious! Get the full written recipe here: http They don't spread out much. Place the cookies on a cooling rack for a few minutes. These pecan snowball cookies (also known as Mexican wedding cookies or Russian tea cakes.
Butter pecan snowball cookies (Mexican wedding cookies) instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In stand mixer cream butter and powdered sugar. Turn to low and mix in salt, vanilla, flour and pecans. Roll into one inch balls. Place on parchment covered baking sheets a few inches part. Bake for 11 minutes. Do not over bake.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool just enough to handle them. Pour 1 cup powdered sugar in large Ziploc bag. Gently add 3-4 cookies at a time and roll them gently in the bottom of the bag. Use fork to scoop under each cookie and gently shake to remove excess powdered sugar. Place on cooling racks. Once completely cooled roll in powdered sugar bag again.
The best, quick and easy snowball cookies recipe (Mexican wedding cookies), homemade with simple ingredients. Rich, buttery, tender, loaded with chopped pecans and powdered sugar. They look like snow and are a classic Christmas cookie that you would find on many holiday dessert tables and platters. They are so easy to make that even kids can help out, just like these Cranberry Orange Cookies. I've never known of any other cookie to take on so many names (Mexican wedding cakes, Russian tea cakes, snowball cookies, Swedish teacakes, Danish almond cookies, and more)!