Mexican Wedding Cakes Recipe

Posted by Grandma Jeanne on December 24, 2005

This is one of our very favorite Christmas cookie recipes. We have been making it since the 1960s… that is a long time! I plan to make it again this afternoon! Another name for this excellent cookie is Russian Tea Cakes.

1 cup butter
1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1/2 cup ground pecans (or walnuts)

Combine butter, sugar, salt, and vanilla. Cream until fluffy.

Mix in flour and nuts.

Shape into balls, about the size of a walnut.

Bake at 400 degrees on an ungreased cookie sheet for 8 to 10 minutes.

Remove from the oven, and roll in more powdered sugar while hot.

Let cool on wire rack, then roll again in powdered sugar.

Store in air-tight container.

Makes 5 dozen cookies.

You can find a wide variety of cookie sheets at Amazon.com. Here are just two of the possibilities: