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From: Patty Jo Allen <>
Subject: [CRF] Mexican Wedding Cakes
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 13:06:27 -0800


Mexican Wedding Cakes
Olde Tyme Recipe


Preparation Time: 30 minutes
Cooking Time: 45 minutes
Serves: makes 2 1/2 dozen ball cookies
Cal: unknown and after 10 who cares ;)

1 1/2 C Butter
2 T Confectionars' Sugar
1 Egg Yolk
1/2 C Chopped Pecans, Walnuts or Almonds
3 1/2 C Flour
1 lb Confectionars' Sugar (usually sold in 1 lb packages)

Preheat the oven to 275F .

In a large bowl, cream the butter.
Add the egg yolk and 2 tablespoons of Confectionars' sugar
and mix well.
Mix in the nuts.
Add in the flour a cup at a time and mix well. The cookie
dough will be some what dry but should be wet enough to
form balls when the dough is compressed in your hands
and rolled.
Once the dough is mixed (make sure not to over mix or your
cookies will not be flaky on the inside), take enough dough to
create a 1
inch (2.5 cm) ball.
Compress the dough in your hands and roll in to a ball.
Place each ball on
an ungreased cookie sheet. Continue until all the cookie
dough is used.
Place the cookie sheet in the oven and bake for 45 minutes
at 275F .
The cookies should be slightly golden on the bottom when
done.
In a large bowl or large casserole dish, pour the 1/2
pound ,about half of the package) of Confectioners' sugar.
Place the hot cookies in the sugar. Be gentle, while the
cookies are hot they break easily. Coat the tops of
the cookies with the remaining Confectioners' sugar.
Wait a few minutes (the sugar is actually melting on the
outside of the cookie and creating a wonderful sugary
frosting) and lightly roll the cookies to coat evenly.
Remove the still warm cookies to a rack to cool.

Note: Sometimes I do roll the cookies while warm twice in
the confectionars' sugar to get a real thick coating of frosting
on the outside. But this depends on how much time you would
like to invest in handling the cookies.
Once your cookies are cool, give them another roll in the
Confectionars' sugar. The cool cookie is much stronger now
and can hold up to being rolled.

Enjoy your beautiful powdered snow balls, Russian Tea
Cakes, Mexican Wedding Cakes...or what ever you would
like to call these wonderful little cookies.


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