Russian Walnut Tea Cookies
Russian Walnut Tea Cookies

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, russian walnut tea cookies. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Russian Walnut Tea Cookies is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Russian Walnut Tea Cookies is something that I have loved my whole life.

Delicious little "tea cakes", as they are known in my family, these traditional cookies are great with coffee as well as tea. The look of a freshly baked Russian tea cake with some powdered sugar on the top like a dust from a fresh bout of snow and a surprise crunchy inside with. These are THE BEST Russian Tea cookies I have ever tried, baked and eaten!!

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook russian walnut tea cookies using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Russian Walnut Tea Cookies:
  1. Take 1 1/2 cups walnuts
  2. Get 1 cup butter, room temperature
  3. Take 2 1/2 cup flour
  4. Make ready 1/2 cup sugar
  5. Get 1/2 tsp salt
  6. Prepare 1 tsp cinnamon
  7. Make ready some powered sugar for rolling

Finally, you'll stir in your nuts. I used chopped, toasted pecans but other nuts like walnuts or macadamia nuts would work as well. I have made these cookies twice now and they have flopped. I know how to follow a recipe and have made cookies from scratch before.

Instructions to make Russian Walnut Tea Cookies:
  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

These Russian Tea Cakes are a classic holiday cookie. They look like little snowballs and are filled with walnuts. This recipe was slightly modified from a recipe shared with me by Tanya, a friend from church. I added more walnuts and subbed half the flour with whole wheat. 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.

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