Sunday, December 7, 2008

Mexican Wedding Cake Cookies

These are easy peasy lemon squeezy (sorry, it’s going through my head all day, have no idea what commercial it is and then I have hubby walking around saying it too)

1 cup butter (2 sticks) room temp/soft
½ cup powder sugar (plus extra for rolling them in)
¼ t salt
1 t vanilla
2 ¼ cup flour
1 cup chopped walnuts (we don’t do nuts I our cookies, but did add 1 cup on mini choc. chips)

Cream butter, sugar and vanilla.
Slowly mix in salt, flour and then stir in nuts/chips
Roll 1 T of dough into ball, place on ungreased cookie sheet (for easy peasy lemon squeezy cleanup, use parchment paper!)
Bake at 350 10 to 15 minutes
Roll cookies in additional powder sugar while still warm (but not HOT otherwise it melts and turns gooey!)

I made the dough & baked 12 cookies to be sure they were suitable. Then rolled out the rest of dough, place all on one baking sheet & froze before putting in a Ziploc. These will be cooked Friday night (if not Saturday morning) for the boat parade. If I make them any sooner, the animals will eat them up!

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