They can be baked and frozen ahead of time.
Snowball Cookies (Mexican Wedding Cookies) are a festive holiday treat!
Full of pecans, butter and sugar for melt-in-your-mouth cookies.
Ingredients of Butter pecan snowball cookies (Mexican wedding cookies)
- It's 1 cup of butter softened.
- You need 1/2 c of powder sugar.
- Prepare 1/4 tsp of salt.
- It's 1 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
- Prepare 2 1/4 cups of flour.
- It's 1 c of finely chopped pecans.
- It's 1 c of powdered sugar for dusting.
Butter pecan snowball cookies (Mexican wedding cookies) step by step
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In stand mixer cream butter and powdered sugar. Turn to low and mix in salt, vanilla, flour and pecans. Roll into one inch balls. Place on parchment covered baking sheets a few inches part. Bake for 11 minutes. Do not over bake.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool just enough to handle them. Pour 1 cup powdered sugar in large Ziploc bag. Gently add 3-4 cookies at a time and roll them gently in the bottom of the bag. Use fork to scoop under each cookie and gently shake to remove excess powdered sugar. Place on cooling racks. Once completely cooled roll in powdered sugar bag again.
Mexican Wedding Cookies are buttery pecan cookies rolled in confectioners sugar, making them look just like snowballs. They are the perfect Christmas cookie, add them to your holiday baking list this year. Mexican Wedding Cookies are a Christmas cookie favorite, but there are SO many. These Mexican Wedding Cookies (also known as Snowball Cookies or Russian Tea Cakes) are buttery Mexican wedding cookies traditionally use pecans, but you can make the cookies with walnuts or The process to make these cookies is very simple: cream butter and powdered sugar. Pecan snowball Christmas cookies may be the one Christmas Cookie that almost every country has a version of.
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