Best Mexican Wedding Cookies Recipe
Mexican Wedding Cookies only need six ingredients for these easy, melt in your mouth cookies. These little snowballs are a wonderful addition to your collection of holiday cookies.
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 ½ cups powdered sugar, divided
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup pecans, coarsely chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl or stand mixer, cream butter, ½ cup powdered sugar, and vanilla extract, until light and creamy.
- Beat in all purpose flour and salt until just combined.
- Stir in chopped pecans.
- Scoop into 1 inch balls.
- Place on prepared baking sheets, about 2 inches apart.
- Bake 10-12 minutes or until set and slightly golden on the edges.
- Remove from the oven and cool on sheets for 1-2 minutes or until you can handle them. Place 1 cup of powdered sugar in a bowl. Roll each warm cookie in the sugar, then place on a cooling rack. Once fully cooled, roll in powdered sugar again, 1-2 times. Enjoy!
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