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| Pin It Mexican Wedding Cakes are amelt-in-your mouth shortbread cookie that goes by many names; a Russian TeaCake, an Italian Butter Nut, a Southern Pecan Butterball, a Snowdrop, a VienneseSugar Ball and a Snowball.They are very popular, not only during the Christmasseason, but also at weddings, christenings, and other festive occasions. Lookingat these cookies you could mistake them for Melting Moments, as theonly difference between the two is that Mexican Wedding Cakes contain ground nuts (either ground pecans,hazelnuts, almonds, or walnuts). The secret to great tasting Mexican Wedding Cakes is to use a high quality butter and purevanilla extract. You can use salted or unsalted butter. If using salted butter, leave out the salt in the recipe. You can also use the higher fat European style (cultured) butters. For the vanilla extract, make sure to use one that is labeled "pure". For the nuts, while I have used pecans, you can use walnuts, hazelnuts or almonds. I like to toast the nuts first as this really brings out their full flavor. The nuts need to be finely chopped. You can do this by hand or in your food processor. Just make sure not to over process the nuts as you do not want a nut paste. Adding a little of the flour from the recipe when processing the nuts helps to prevent this from happening. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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