Mexican cookies/snowball 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 Mexican chocolate snowballs are a new twist on an old favorite made with almonds, dark chocolate, cinnamon, and ancho chile pepper..
Mexican Wedding Cookies (also known as Snowball Cookies, or Russian Tea Cakes, among other names depending on where you're from) are very simple and delicious cookies.
The basic recipe consists of very few ingredients: Snowball Cookies aka Mexican Wedding Cookies recipe makes a delicious, dainty ball shaped cookie with lots of butter and chopped pecans, then rolled in powdered sugar.
For many families, making and serving this dessert has become a Christmas Tradition!
You can cook Mexican cookies/snowball cookies using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Mexican cookies/snowball cookies
- It's 1/4 cup of oil.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of sugar.
- Prepare 1 tsp of bicarbonate.
- Prepare 1 tbs of milk.
- It's 1 cup of icing sugar.
- It's Pinch of salt.
- You need 1 1/2 cup of flour.
- Prepare of Essence.
- Prepare 1 tsp of ginger /Cinnamon (optional).
- Prepare 1 of egg.
Cream butter and sugar in medium bowl until creamy. Add vanilla; beat until well mixed. Add flour and pecans; beat at low speed, scraping bowl occasionally, until well mixed. Snowball Cookies are hands down without a doubt one of my favorite cookies!
Mexican cookies/snowball cookies instructions
- Mix all the ingredients except the flour and icing sugar into a good smooth mixture.
- Gradually add flour into the mixture until soft maliable dough..
- Roll into small balls and bake.
- Toss in bowl of icing sugar once cooled and serve.
Also known as Mexican Wedding Cookies, these are one of my favorite holiday cookies as they look so festive and taste even better! Snowball cookies are an unusual combination of ground pecans, lots of butter, flour and a bit of sugar. While the original cookie recipe calls for walnuts, these versatile homemade Mexican wedding cookies can also be made with almonds or pecans. I've never tried another nut (or nut free snowball cookies) but would be interested to know if they might also work with macadamia nuts, cashews, or even pistachios! Some of the common names for these delicious balls of pure bliss are, Russian Tea Cakes, Mexican Wedding Cookies, Italian Wedding Cookies, snowdrops, butter balls or more specifically pecan butter balls.