Mexican wedding cake cookies recipes

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Mexican Wedding Cookies (also known as “snowballs”, Russian Tea Cookies, or Pecan Sandies) offer a buttery pecan shortbread cookie ball that’s coated in sweetly soft powdered sugar - resembling powder-soft early snowfall, officially welcoming the Christmas season!

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Joy Of Cooking Mexican Wedding Cookies

Joy Of Cooking Mexican Wedding Cookies is made with heaping pecans, powdered sugar, all-purpose flour, cinnamon, butter, sea salt, vanilla extract, and almond extract. This straightforward recipe demands just 30 minutes of prep and yields delightful cookies in 13 to 16 minutes, offering pure joy in every bite.

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a white plate topped with snowball cookies covered in powdered sugar and almonds

Mexican wedding cookies are soft and buttery with almonds in every bite! These powdered sugar-covered cookies are crumbly and delicious. #mexicanweddingcookies #mexicancookies #weddingcookies #cookies #dessert

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This traditional Mexican Cookie Recipe, also known as Mexican Wedding Cookies, is a classic crumbly shortbread cookie made with pecans, and double rolled in powdered sugar for the ultimate treat. Perfect for the Christmas season.

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If you’re looking for the best recipe for these delicate cookies (aka butter balls, Mexican wedding cakes and Russian tea cakes), look no further. I always thought the best version would have a higher ratio of nuts, but Pillsbury uses fewer nuts in their recipe, producing a more tender cookie. They also use a higher ratio of vanilla. I made 3/4 of the full recipe, but used the full amount of flavoring, subbing vanilla powder for the vanilla extract. Then I added 1 tsp. of rum (not extract)…

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It’s the last cookie from Cookie Baking Day 2012! How fast the holidays go by. My mom made these Mexican Wedding Cookies a few months back and they were so delicious, we decided to include them on the list. You know the Danish Wedding Cookies in the pink box you can buy? These are very similar except there’s no coconut. I think this homemade version is a million times better. I’m not sure what makes them Mexican or Danish, but I don’t care where they come from when they taste this good. So…

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