If you don’t have snow for your holidays, you can make your own!  And eat it, too!   Snowball Cookies!   They also happen to be known as Mexican Wedding Cakes or Russian Tea Cakes, depending on who’s making the cookies.  

Black and White Wednesday:  A Culinary Gallery

created by Susan of The Well-Seasoned Cook

Snowball Cookies

as seen on Lululu at Home

Ingredients (around 20 cookies):

1 cup cake flour

1 1/2 cups nut of your choice (I used walnut, pecan and almond), finely chopped

1 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons granulated sugar

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature

1 cup powder sugar

Directions:

Preheat oven to 300F.

In a bowl, mix together flour, nuts, salt and sugar.

Add vanilla extract, then butter in little pieces. Combine everything together with your hands until the mixture looks like a coarse meal.

Form the dough into tablespoon-sized balls, place onto a cookie sheet. Leave an inch apart between cookies.

Bake for 35 minutes. When they are still warm, but cool enough to touch, roll the cookies in powder sugar lightly. Set aside to cool completely. Then dust with powdered sugar again.