Soft Mexican Wedding Cookies. The soft, melt-away texture of Mexican Wedding cookies is thanks to a rich, buttery dough and lots of crushed nuts. Although some cooks add spices to their Mexican Wedding cookies, I'm really a purist and made this version without any spices at all. They are delectable butter-type cookies served as favors at traditional Mexican weddings. They also make a wonderful addition to any Christmas goodie platter. Chill dough if it seems too soft.
Mexican Wedding Cookies - melt-in-your-mouth, buttery, pecan dotted cookies are rolled in sweet blizzard of snowy white powdered sugar and you'll be savoring every Mexican Wedding Cookies.
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Cream butter and vanilla extract until it becomes light and fluffy.
You can have Soft Mexican Wedding Cookies using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Soft Mexican Wedding Cookies
- Prepare 10 oz of Pastry flour or all-purpose flour.
- You need 10 oz of Butter.
- Prepare 1/2 tbsp of Vanilla extract.
- It's 4 oz of Powdered sugar.
- It's 1 1/2 cup of Walnuts.
Add the powdered sugar and the flower continue to mix. I have made Mexican Wedding Cookies for more than half my life. It was taught to me by my Auntie Nacia when I was in high school. I did use chopped walnuts in place of the suggested nuts because I prefer a softer nut with these cookies I also used powder sugar in place of.
Soft Mexican Wedding Cookies instructions
- Scale all the ingredients.
- Cream butter and vanilla extract until it becomes light and fluffy.
- Add the powdered sugar and the flower continue to mix.
- Add the chopped walnuts or pecans then give it a mix for five seconds.
- Scoop the cookie dough and place it on parchment paper.
- Place the cookie dough in the freezer for 15 minutes.
- Bake the cookies at 350° for 10 to 15 minutes or until the bottom of the cookie turns brown.
- Allow the cookies to cool down for 10 minutes then sift powdered sugar on top of the cookies.
How do you make Mexican wedding cookies? Mexican cookies are a simple butter cookies with nuts and Ricotta Cheese Holiday Cookies - soft cookies with a cake-like texture. Delicious traditional Mexican Wedding Cookies -- sweet, soft and crumbly, a little shortbread-like, and filled with pecans. These Mexican Wedding cookies (also known as Russian Tea cookies), are a traditional cookie remade gluten-free and vegan here. Mexican Wedding Cookies are a popular dessert to serve for special occasions like holidays, made with butter, all purpose flour, sugar, and pecans, then rolled in a thick layer of powdered sugar.