Author Notes
After reading about the origins of other Food52er's cookie recipes it appears that we have a "momfest" going here. This is my mother's cookie recipe which I know she got from her own mother who loved to bake. My mother called them Russian Tea Cakes. I have tasted very similar cookies called Mexican Wedding Cookies. Whatever the original designation, I just call them Snowball Cookies. They look like little snowballs. Be careful when you take them out of the oven because they are very fragile until cooled. —dymnyno
Ingredients
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1 cup butter
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1/2 cup granulated sugar
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1 teaspoon vanilla
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2 cups flour
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1/2 teaspoon salt
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1 1/2 cups ground walnuts
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about 2 cups powdered sugar for rolling the balls
Directions
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Whip up the butter and add the sugar, whipping until it becomes fluffy. Then add the vanilla.
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Add the dry ingredients into the vanilla, butter and sugar mixture.
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In a food processor, pulse the walnuts pretty fine.
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Mix the walnuts into the dough.
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Using your hands , roll the cookie dough into little balls about 1 1/2 in diameter.
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Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and place the snowballs on it .Chill for about 10 min.
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Then bake in a 325 degree oven for about 20 to 30 minutes. Watch to make sure the bottoms don't burn. Half way through, reverse the cookie sheet.
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Immediately after removing from the oven, roll the balls in powdered sugar, completely coating them. Or, if your are all thumbs, like me, I use a flour sifter and sift the powdered sugar all over the balls and then gently (!) roll them over and do the other side. Then I roll them over once again and sift more sugar over them.
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Cool, then sprinkle more powdered sugar on them and shake off the excess..
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