Pastel Mexican Wedding Cookies
Make Mexican wedding cookies fun in a variety of colors to match the occasion. This recipe is my mom's often requested recipe that even appeared at my own wedding.
Servings: 24 cookies
Equipment
- Spice grinder
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 cups cake flour
- 1 cup chopped nuts (pecan or walnut)
- variety of colored sanding sugar in desired colors
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silpat.
- Cream the butter and powdered sugar in a stand mixer using the paddle attachment.
- Add the cake flour, vanilla, and chopped nuts. Mix until ingredients are just combined.
- Use your hands to roll the cookies into small balls, about the size of a bouncy ball.
- Space the cookies 2" apart on the lined cookie sheet. Use a fork to gently press the cookies flat, and leave tine marks in the cookies.
- Bake for 10 minutes.
- Let cool to the touch. Meanwhile use a spice grinder to turn sanding sugar into powdered sugar, one color at a time.
- Wipe the grinder between colors and put each color in a separate bowl.
- Once cookies are cool, gently coat the cookies in whatever colored sanding sugar you want.
- These cookies keep in a tightly sealed plastic container for up to a week.