Recipe: Tasty Russian Walnut Tea Cookies

Russian Walnut Tea Cookies. Immediately remove from cookie sheet; roll in powdered sugar. The look of a freshly baked Russian tea cake with some powdered sugar on the top like a dust from a fresh bout of snow and a surprise crunchy inside with. A shortbread-like dough, studded with chopped nuts, bakes up to a texture that's beautifully sandy and tender, never dry or crumbling to bits.

Russian tea cookies are commonly found at Christmas time. These holiday cookies are also known as Mexican wedding cookies, Mexican wedding cakes. This one was created by Yigit Pura of Tout Sweet patisserie, in San Francisco and Palo Alto. You can cook Russian Walnut Tea Cookies using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Russian Walnut Tea Cookies

1. It's 1 1/2 cups of walnuts.
2. Prepare 1 cup of butter, room temperature.
3. It's 2 1/2 cup of flour.
4. It's 1/2 cup of sugar.
5. You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of cinnamon.
7. It's of some powered sugar for rolling.

One of my most requested Christmas cookie recipes! I used chopped, toasted pecans but other nuts like walnuts or macadamia nuts would work as well. I like to present my favorite holiday cookies in a special way. I pile these fresh-baked tea cakes on pretty plates that I buy throughout the year, then wrap them with colored cellophane to give friends. —Valerie Hudson, Mason City, Iowa.

Russian Walnut Tea Cookies instructions

1. Preheat over to 350 degrees F.
2. Grind nuts to a coarse meal in a food processor.
3. Beat butter and sugar with a mixer on high until light and fluffy.
4. Gradually add flour to butter and sugar mixture.
5. Add cinnamon, salt, and nuts then mix thoroughly. The dough should be crumbly but hold together when rolled in your hands..
6. Form dough in 3/4 inch balls and place 1 inch apart on cookie sheets.
7. Bake for about 15 minutes. Finished cookies should look raw on top, but have lightly browned undersides. Carefully lift one with a spatula to check..
8. Remove from oven and cool for 5 minutes.
9. Roll each cookie in powered sugar.

Mexican Wedding Cookies, Russian Tea Cakes, or Snowball Cookies. Walnut shaped cookies with condensed milk on wooden table. Walnut shaped shortbread cookies with cream filling in a metal cup against the dark background. Russian Tea Cookies recipe: Try this Russian Tea Cookies recipe, or contribute your own. Add nuts, and mix well (mixing with your hands) until the dough sticks together.