Russian Walnut Tea Cookies. 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. Immediately remove from cookie sheet; roll in powdered sugar. 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.
These holiday cookies are also known as Mexican wedding cookies, Mexican wedding cakes.
Mexican Wedding Cookies, Russian Tea Cakes, or Snowball Cookies.
Walnut shaped cookies with condensed milk on wooden table.
You can have Russian Walnut Tea Cookies using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Russian Walnut Tea Cookies
- It's 1 1/2 cups of walnuts.
- It's 1 cup of butter, room temperature.
- You need 2 1/2 cup of flour.
- It's 1/2 cup of sugar.
- It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 1 tsp of cinnamon.
- Prepare of some powered sugar for rolling.
Walnut shaped shortbread cookies with cream filling in a metal cup against the dark background. One of my most requested Christmas cookie recipes! Finally, you'll stir in your nuts. I used chopped, toasted pecans but other nuts like walnuts or macadamia nuts would work as well.
Russian Walnut Tea Cookies step by step
- Preheat over to 350 degrees F.
- Grind nuts to a coarse meal in a food processor.
- Beat butter and sugar with a mixer on high until light and fluffy.
- Gradually add flour to butter and sugar mixture.
- Add cinnamon, salt, and nuts then mix thoroughly. The dough should be crumbly but hold together when rolled in your hands..
- Form dough in 3/4 inch balls and place 1 inch apart on cookie sheets.
- 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..
- Remove from oven and cool for 5 minutes.
- Roll each cookie in powered sugar.
Oreshki are walnut shaped cookies filled with a dulce de leche filling, creating one of the most admired Russian cookies! Russian Tea Cakes, or Mexican Wedding Cookies, have long been a favorite--especially during the holiday season. Many families make these each year and some shape them into crescents. Some families call them moon cookies but they're still the same famous tea cake. I like to present my favorite holiday cookies in a special way.