Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, russian snowballs. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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. 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.
Russian Snowballs is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Russian Snowballs is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have russian snowballs using 7 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Russian Snowballs:
- Get All Purpose Flour
- Take Unsalted softened Butter
- Prepare Confectioners Sugar
- Take Almonds chopped
- Prepare Vanilla extract
- Prepare Flour for dusting
- Make ready Powdered Sugar as preferred
These are also the same cookies that our dear "Meme" calls butter balls. Russian Tea Cakes or Snowball Cookies How To Make Snowball Cookies. What I love the most about Russian Tea Cakes (also known as Snowball Cookies) is that they are basically a shortbread that you can add your favorite nut to, bake up into melt-in-your-mouth buttery cookie goodness and then coat in powdered sugar. It's almost exactly the same as a Russian tea cake recipe from Betty Crocker's web site.
Instructions to make Russian Snowballs:
- Take 2 cups all purpose flour in a wide bowl.
- Add 1 cup softened unsalted butter to the flour.
- Add 2 tablespoons chopped almonds. Add walnuts / pecans if preferred. Adding nuts is optional.
- Add 6 tablespoons confectioners sugar.
- Add 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract.
- Combine flour, sugar and butter completely using your finger tips. Do it until cookie dough is crumble as well as ready to hold shapes. Scoop dough and hold even sized balls.
- Press and flatten the balls gently. Place the cookies on the flour dusted baking tray.
- Arrange cookies with minimum space as shown. Bake in a preheated oven at 180C for 12 minutes.
- After 12 minutes, take the cookies out from the oven. Cool them completely. The golden bottom indicates baked. Roll the cooled cookies completely in powdered sugar. Coat as much as preferred.
- Russian Christmas Snowballs are ready. They are also called as Russian Tea cakes. - These delicious snowballs are perfect for this holiday season. - Absolutely yum, melt in mouth tea cakes.
How to freeze and thaw Snowball Cookies aka Russian Tea Cakes and Mexican Wedding Cookies. They can be baked and frozen ahead of time. Pack the cookies in doubled Ziploc freezer bags and place them in sturdy glad-ware freezer container. When defrosting take them out of the containers frozen and place on serving trays or platters uncovered. I'm a first generation Russian/Ukrainian - American and my husband is a "right off the boat" Russian.
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