Recipes

[ECBG]

Mexican Wedding Cookies

1 C butter

1/2 cup granulated sugar

2 tsp. vanilla extract

2 tsp. water

2 C all purpose flower (I use White Lily)

1 C chopped almonds

1/2 C confectioner's sugar

I use parchment on the bake sheet.  It makes a nicer cookie.

1.  In medium bowl, cream butter and sugar in mixer.  Add vanilla and water.

2.  Add flour and almonds.  Mix until well blended.  Cover and chill about 30 minutes.

3.  Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

4.  Shape dough into balls medium small size and place on parchment.

5.  Bake 15-20 minutes just until barely brown on edges and the top is done but not brown.

6.  Remove and cool on racks.

&.  Dip in small deep bowl of powdered sugar seperately shake off excess.  Soore in air tight container.

I hope you enjoy these!  My advanced students did these and I have given them on gift trays.  Can't ever seem to have enough!

[ECBG]

Forgot to mention the recipe for the Mexican Wedding cookies doubles easily..makes it much easier.  If you refrigerate the dough over night, sit it out about hald a hour first.

[doxie1]

I am not SF native but this recipe looks divine!

doxie

[Honeybit]

Same here -- thanks for sharing with SFNATIVE and all of us!

[2slow2]

I'm not SFnative, but I was hoping you would post this, thanks ECBG!!

[Lynneuk]

These sound good! 

When you say chopped almonds do you mean chopped fine like almond flour or chopped so that there are chunky pieces in the cookie?

Thanks.

[sfnative]

@ECBG

Thank you so much for the Mexican Wedding Cookies recipe!  I can't tell you how happy I am to finally have it.

~Rebecca

[sfnative]

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@Lynneuk wrote:

These sound good! 

When you say chopped almonds do you mean chopped fine like almond flour or chopped so that there are chunky pieces in the cookie?

Thanks.

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@Lynneuk

I hope we receive an answer to your question.  When I make Swedish Crescent Cookies, the pecans I use are placed in my Cuisinart and processed until they are just short of almond flour.

[Mom2Dogs]

We have alwasy called these Russina Tea Cakes or Mexican Wedding Cakes!

The recipe looks like mine except in place of the almonds we use chopped walnuts.

They are very good.

[ECBG]

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@Lynneuk wrote:

These sound good! 

When you say chopped almonds do you mean chopped fine like almond flour or chopped so that there are chunky pieces in the cookie?

Thanks.

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*********************************************Like they're tiny pieces, not creamed.