How to Cook Tasty 'Russian' Cookies

'Russian' Cookies. There's no feeling quite as blissful as your first bite of one of these cookies. Whether you call them Russian tea cakes, Mexican wedding cookies or snowballs, there's no denying that they're essential to bake during the Christmas season. A shortbread-like dough, studded with chopped nuts, bakes up to a texture that's beautifully sandy and tender, never dry or crumbling to bits.

The cookies are filled with luscious plum jam and finished with a simple glaze. Cookies or biscuits (pechenye) in Russian cuisine may have some traditional difference, but in general are very close to others. Main advantage is that homemade cookies bring aroma of coziness, comfort and sweet home. You can have 'Russian' Cookies using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of 'Russian' Cookies

1. It's 75 g of cold, unsalted butter (5 Tbsp).
2. You need 25 g of powdered sugar (3 Tbsp).
3. Prepare 35 g of ground almonds or walnuts (3 1/2 Tbsp).
4. You need 100 g of cake flour or weak flour (1 cup).
5. You need of More powdered sugar for dusting.

Taking the first bite of a just baked steaming cookie, you are to remember mother's caring hands, her supportive smile and. I remember eating these often when I was little and I just recently found the recipe again in an old cookbook. The challenging aspect of reproducing Soviet recipes in a North American setting is that there are way too many choices, whether it is oven settings or the required ingredients. Typically, the cookies were laced with cloves, ginger, citrus fruits, pepper, nutmeg, mint.

'Russian' Cookies step by step

1. Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F..
2. Cut the butter into small cubes. Put butter, powdered sugar, nuts and flour in a food processor..
3. Blend in the food processor until clumps start to form (about 1 minute). Be careful not to over mix or the dough will become sticky..
4. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Form the dough into about 20 cookies about 2.5 cm (1 inch) round. Arrange them on the baking sheet..
5. Bake in your preheated oven for 18-20 minutes. When they are just beginning to brown a little, they are finished..
6. Let the cookies cool before dusting with powdered sugar. You can dust with a fine sieve or place the cookies along some sugar in a plastic baggie and shake. Plain is fine too!.

Made a double recipe for a family get together. For best results, remove the foil to let the meat brown just before it is done. Tvorog (Russian cottage cheese) is traditionally used for this recipe, but it. Immediately remove from cookie sheet; roll in powdered sugar. Chef Irina Pavlova, a Russian native, served Guy potato pancakes with meat inside, which he described as "crispy, creamy and salty." Customers also enjoy the cabbage rolls and Russian sweets.