Mexican Wedding Cookies/Russian Tea Cookies Recipe (video)
This one is similar to the short bread we did last week with a couple of extra steps! These little round cookies are delicious little flavour bombs that are crispy, fluffy, and very sweet. To me, the flavour and aroma of these is the absolute distillation of Christmas baking. Sugar, butter, vanilla, and some nice toasted nuts. Now, they don't really spread out and turn into cookies. If you've done these correctly, they should basically stay as round little balls that are crispy and crumbly and go excellently well with the hot drink of your choice: tea, coffee, hot chocolate, whatever!
If you want these to be perfectly frosted with powdered sugar, then you should really dust them twice. The first time when they're still quite warm (but not super hot), and the second time once they have cooled to room temperature. If you only do it once when they're still hot, they'll have some little spots where the sugar has sort of melted to the cookies. The second dusting will make them much more uniformly fluffy white. We didn't do this because it's a little too much sugar for us personally, but if you have a sweet tooth, by all means, you should go ahead with the second dusting of powdered sugar!
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