Mexican Wedding Cookies (small batch recipe).
When I hosted a giveaway last week, I made y'all tell me about your favorite holiday cookie. That was me secretly compiling information about which recipes to share next here on Dessert For Two. Quite a few of you said that you were looking forward to Mexican Wedding Cookies. I'm so excited to share this recipe because these are my favorite holiday cookie! Great minds think alike, you know.
You might notice the cookies are um, green. Well, in my family, we've been dying them green for years. One year, my grandma tried dying them red, but we decided they looked like meatballs and never went back. They're always green in my family, and they always have Texas pecans.
These cookies also go by the name snowball cookies, wedding cookies, crescent cookies, and Russian tea cakes (I believe walnuts are substituted in these). Quite simply, they are tender butter cookies that melt in your mouth. They deserve a place in the cookie buffet of Christmas.
This is the first installation of Cookie Week 2012 here on Dessert For Two. Stay tuned for lots of delicious cookie recipes this week. As always, the recipes make 1 dozen or fewer cookies, so you can make lots of different kinds!
These Mexican wedding cookies are a firm family favorite!Mexican Wedding Cookies
Ingredients
Instructions
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12
Serving Size:
1
Amount Per Serving:
Calories: 166Total Fat: 10gSaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 20mgSodium: 23mgCarbohydrates: 19gFiber: 1gSugar: 10gProtein: 1g
shelly (cookies and cups) says
LOVE that you guys make them green!
Bev @ Bev Cooks says
I'll take 5 hundred billion.
Erin@LawStudentsWife says
Ah, these take me back to my grandma's house! Love the green addition too. Thanks Christina!
Becca says
I just finished making this recipe - they turned out perfect! I'd never had a Mexican Wedding Cookie before (think of all the lost years I could've been eating these!) but had some extra pecans lying around. I don't think they're going to make it to the end of the day =)
Lynsey@ Lynsey Lou's says
I LOVE these things! How fun that ya'll make them green. The are a must for our family every year around Christmas.
Michelle says
Gorgeous! They look delicious!
Karly says
I'm not gonna lie...the green freaked me out. Haha! I'd still totally eat a whole cookie platter full of these guys, though, green or not.
Julie @ Table for Two says
haha, i was wondering why they were green! i thought it was my screen ;) these are one of my FAVORITE cookies around the holidays. i LOVE how they're melt in your mouth good!
Julia {The Roasted Root} says
My family does a big cookie baking session every year where we make far too many of a large variety of cookies. We've always done Mexican Wedding cookies - they're definitely tasty and fun and I love your take on dying them green! Red would be fun too! Very festive and fun!
Kathryn says
I totally love that your family makes them green - so festive! And I bet they taste absolutely amazing. So excited to see all the cookies you're going to come up with this week : )