Recipe: Tasty Mexican Wedding Cookies

Mexican Wedding Cookies.

You can have Mexican Wedding Cookies using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Mexican Wedding Cookies

1. You need 2 cup of Flour (all-purpose flour or cake flour).
2. It's 1/4 tsp of Salt.
3. You need 225 grams of Unsalted butter (brought to room temperature).
4. Prepare 240 ml of Pecan (finely chopped).
5. It's 120 ml of Powdered sugar.
6. It's 2 tsp of Vanilla extract (or essence).
7. You need 360 ml of Powdered sugar (for the finish).

Mexican Wedding Cookies step by step

1. Preheat the oven to 180℃ (350℉)..
2. Mix the flour, salt, and the pecans in a bowl with a whisk..
3. In a larger bowl, mix the butter and the powdered sugar until fluffy using a hand mixer. Add the vanilla extract. Add the flour mixture and blend the dough thoroughly. (Avoid mixing too much! It is okay to leave it slightly floury.).
4. Roll the dough into 3-4 cm balls. Place them on the baking sheet that is not oil coated (this is important!) leaving about 3 cm spaces between them. Bake in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes until lightly browned..
5. In a metal tray with 3/4 cup (180 ml) of powdered sugar, put a few of the just baked cookies at a time and coat them with the sugar. Place them on the cooling rack..
6. When all the cookies are coated with powdered sugar and placed on the rack, sprinkle more powdered sugar using a tea strainer. Cool them down completely..