These beautiful little cookies are a sweet holiday tradition in our house!
Christmas Cookies AKA Mexican Wedding Cookies
Recipe type: Dessert, Cookie
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Serves: 24
Ingredients
- 1 stick softened butter
- 2 tbsp. confectioner’s sugar
- 1 tbsp. vanilla
- ½ cup chopped walnuts
- 1 cup flour
- Extra confectioner’s sugar for topping
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Cream together butter and sugar until soft.
- Mix in the vanilla and nuts; then gradually add the flour.
- Shape into small balls (smaller than a scoop of ice cream, bigger than a tbsp.
- Bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 12-15 minutes
- Cool for five minutes.
- Shake cookies in a bag of confectioner’s sugar.
- Set aside until completely cooled.
- Once cooled, roll again into confectioner’s sugar.