Mexican Wedding cookies /snow ball cookies delicious nutty cookies that are rolled in powdered sugar.
Prep Time20 minutesmins
Cook Time20 minutesmins
Total Time40 minutesmins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Mexican
Keyword: Mexican Wedding cookies, Snow ball cookies
Servings: 12no
Calories: 97kcal
Ingredients
Dough
¼cup unsalted butter*
¼cupconfectioners' sugar/Powdered Sugar
¾teaspoonsvanilla extract
⅛teaspoonalmond extractoptional
⅛ teaspoonsalt.
¼+⅛ cup almond flour or ¾ cup blanched almondsfinely ground
1 ⅛cupKing Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
2 ½tablespoonof water
* you can increase the amount of butter to ½ cup then no need of water
Coating
¼cupconfectioners' sugar
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 325°F. Lightly grease (or line with parchment) one baking sheets
In a large bowl, beat together the butter, sugar, vanilla extract, almond extract, and salt.
Beat in the almond flour, then the all-purpose flour. Add water if needed to form a stiff dough.
Scoop chestnut-sized (1") pieces of dough, and roll them into balls. A level teaspoon cookie scoop will give you just the right amount of dough. Place the balls on the prepared baking sheets, leaving 1" between them.
Bake the cookies for 15 to 20 minutes, until they feel set on top: and some of them are MAYBE beginning to barely brown around the edges.
While the cookies are baking, put the topping sugar in a shallow bowl.
Remove the cookies from the oven and transfer them, 5 or 6 at a time, to the bowl. Roll them in the sugar to coat, and then transfer them to a rack to cool.
When the cookies are cool, roll them in the sugar again; they should be thoroughly coated and snowy white.
Store airtight at room temperature.
Notes
Variations:
You can use pecans, walnuts or any nut of your choice instead of Almond.