Recipe: Perfect Russian Walnut Tea Cookies

Russian Walnut Tea Cookies. I made that recipe for the first time a couple of weeks ago and today wanting more Russian Tea Cakes decided to try the recipe on this site to compare. Russian Walnut Tea Cookies Delicious little "tea cakes", as they are known in my family, these traditional cookies are great with coffee as well as tea. Oreshki are Russian walnut shaped cookies, made by cooking them in a special skillet..

In a medium bowl and using an electric mixer at medium speed, beat butter and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy. 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. You can have Russian Walnut Tea Cookies using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Russian Walnut Tea Cookies

1. You need 1 1/2 cups of walnuts.
2. It's 1 cup of butter, room temperature.
3. You need 2 1/2 cup of flour.
4. It's 1/2 cup of sugar.
5. It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of cinnamon.
7. Prepare of some powered sugar for rolling.

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. Traditionally, snowball cookies can be made with walnuts, almonds and I have even seen pecans (however when you use pecans the cookies are traditionally called pecan sandies more than they are called snowball cookies) or hazelnuts which make them a Russian Tea Cake more than a snowball cookie. In large bowl, break up cookie dough. Stir or knead in flour, pecans and vanilla until well blended.

Russian Walnut Tea Cookies step by step

1. Preheat over to 350 degrees F.
2. Grind nuts to a coarse meal in a food processor.
3. Beat butter and sugar with a mixer on high until light and fluffy.
4. Gradually add flour to butter and sugar mixture.
5. Add cinnamon, salt, and nuts then mix thoroughly. The dough should be crumbly but hold together when rolled in your hands..
6. Form dough in 3/4 inch balls and place 1 inch apart on cookie sheets.
7. Bake for about 15 minutes. Finished cookies should look raw on top, but have lightly browned undersides. Carefully lift one with a spatula to check..
8. Remove from oven and cool for 5 minutes.
9. Roll each cookie in powered sugar.

In a medium bowl, cream butter and vanilla until smooth. Combine the icing sugar and flour then stir into the butter mixture until just blended. The history of Russian Tea Cakes is somewhat mysterious. They are also known as "Mexican Wedding Cakes", "Italian Wedding Cookies", "Snowball Cookies" or "Butter Balls". Russian Tea Cakes Recipe: These Traditional Holiday Cookies Are Super Easy To Make They're perfect for your next holiday party!