Recipe: Perfect Mum's Mexican Wedding Cookies aka Russian Teacakes

Mum's Mexican Wedding Cookies aka Russian Teacakes. Great recipe for Mum's Mexican Wedding Cookies aka Russian Teacakes. Melt in your mouth goodness :-) But really the BEST thing about these Mexican wedding cookies (or Russian tea cakes or snowballs or whatever you want to call them) is their melt-in-your-mouth quality. There's no feeling quite as blissful as your first bite of one of these cookies.

How to make Mexican Wedding Cookies or Russian Tea Cakes. Mexican Wedding Cookies or Snowball cookies or Sweethearts, whatever you want to call them, they are all the same basic recipe: a really buttery not-very-sweet shortbread dough, with chopped nuts mixed in. They bake up into a delightful little ball of a cookie that doesn't spread much. You can cook Mum's Mexican Wedding Cookies aka Russian Teacakes using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Mum's Mexican Wedding Cookies aka Russian Teacakes

1. Prepare 2.5 C of Plain Flour.
2. Prepare 1/2 C of Powdered Sugar.
3. It's 1 C of Salted Butter (Softened).
4. Prepare 1 tsp of Vanilla Extract.
5. You need 3/4 C of Finely Chopped Nuts (Walnuts, Pecans).
6. You need 1/2 C of Icing (Powdered) Sugar for rolling.

Russian Teacakes (aka Mexican Wedding Cakes) This is not a new recipe to me but I did use a different nut, which gave it a different flavor - very buttery. These are a simple shortbread cookie with the only tricky part being rolling them in icing or confectioners' sugar. Sugar gets everywhere and since the… Mexican Wedding Cakes Recipe (or Russian Tea Cakes) Cookies One of my long time friends from college calls these delicious Mexican Wedding Cake cookies "butter balls". And for good reason: they are made with lots of butter and rolled in powder sugar that just melts in your mouth.

Mum's Mexican Wedding Cookies aka Russian Teacakes step by step

1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Chop nuts until fine and set aside..
2. Mix powdered sugar, butter and vanilla extract together..
3. Add the flour and nuts until fully combined. Dough will be crumbley..
4. Shape dough into one inch balls. The dough should stick together as you form the ball. If not, add a bit more butter..
5. Place on cookie sheet lined with parchment paper about one inch apart. Bake for 10 minutes..
6. Allow to cool slightly on cookie rack. Roll warm cookies in powdered sugar. Allow to cool more and roll them again in powdered sugar..

They were known as Russian Tea Cakes then. Now the same recipe is called Mexican Wedding cakes. But whatever you call them they are on almost everyone's top cookies list. I'm posting this for my Mom's cookbook. Russian Tea Cakes are a classic cookie recipe that are known by lots of different names…Snowball Cookies, Tea Cakes, Butter Balls, or Mexican Wedding Cookies.