For DawnNYS...Russian Tea Cakes (Mexican Wedding Rings)

maycee

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I don't know if you got the recipe for the Russian Tea Cakes but what the recipe I have sounds like what you are looking for...buttery, very tender, rolled in powdered sugar:

Mexican Wedding Rings

(Vary the shapes of these cookies by forming crescents, fingers or balls)

1/2 lb butter, room temp for mixer, cold and cut up for food processor

1/4 cup powdered sugar

1/8 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup chopped pecans (4 oz)

Powdered sugar

In a large bowl or food processor fitted with the metal blade, cream butter and powdered sugar until light and fluffy. Add salt, vanilla, flour and pecans; blend. Divide dough into 4 equal portions. Wrap each portion in wax paper. Refrigerate until cold enough to shape. Preheat oven to 325. Remove 1 portion of dough at a time from refrigerator.

Pinch off small pieces of cold dough. With hands, roll each piece into a narrow strip. Press ends together to form a small ring.

or

Pinch off small pieces of cold dough and roll into a ball.

Place on ungreased baking sheets. Bake 15 to 18 minutes. Remove from oven and immediately roll in powdered sugar. Cool on wire racks.

Makes about 48 cookies.

 
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