What a holiday season this has been. I'll be trying to catch up over the next few days with posts that I had hoped to get out before Christmas. Oh well. Better late than never...
My favorite Christmas cookies are Mexican wedding cookies. I'm not exactly sure how wedding cookies became associated with Christmas (maybe because they look like litte snowballs), but who cares! These cookies are de-friggin-licious.
What I like about this recipe is that it isn't super-sweet. As you'll see, there is not a heck of a lot of sugar in the cookie itself. But, you can control the sweetness by using a heavier or lighter dusting of powdered sugar. In the picture above, I used a lighter coating. After I shot the photo, I actually added more powdered sugar because they weren't quite sweet enough for me.
A word of advice, don't wear black when eating these cookies...
MEXICAN WEDDING COOKIES
1 cup softened unsalted butter
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons Mexican vanilla
1 cup raw walnuts, shelled
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
powdered sugar
1) Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
2) In a mixer, cream together the butter, sugar, and vanilla.
3) In a mini-processor, pulse the walnuts until they are finely grated.
4) In a large bowl, combine the flour and salt. Add in the grated walnuts and mix until well blended.
5) With the mixer on low speed, gradually add the flour mixture into the butter mixture. Continue mixing until mixture forms a crumbly dough.
6) Take one teaspoon of dough and shape into a small ball. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Repeat with remaining dough, keeping balls at least 1/2 inch apart.
7) Bake for about 20 minutes.
8) Remove from oven and let cool for about 5 minutes. Carefully remove to cookies to a cooling rack.
9) When cookies are completely cooled, place powdered sugar in a ziploc bag. Add cookies a few at a time and shake until lightly to well coated.
Makes 5-6 dozen cookies.
4 comments:
Those are my favorite holiday cookies too! I call them white mice and have also heard them called Mexican Wedding Cakes (rather than Cookies). Looks like our recipes are just slightly different see mine here.
These are absolutely my favorite Christmas cookies too. (And so very un-South Beach diet approved!)
They look delightful, and loved the note about not wearing black ;) Look at it this way, at least you'll know who's been sneaking into the cookie jar with these powdery delights!
Pam - Cakes. Cookies. It's ALL good. Thanks for sharing the link to your version!
Kalyn - Hmm. I wonder if there is a way to make them more South Beach. I guess they haven't come out with Powdered Splenda yet.
Ellie - I wonder if there is a way to make the powdered sugar stay on better...but then that wouldn't leave any evidence.
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