Mexican Wedding Cookies

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Mexican wedding cookies, also known as Russian tea cakes, have a delicate, fine, melt-in-your-mouth texture—not unlike shortbread—plus a rich, deeply nutty flavor.

A cookbook recipe exclusively for All-Access members from The Perfect Cookie

SERVESMakes 48 cookies

TIME1¼ hour, plus 20 minutes cooling

Mexican Wedding Cookies
The Perfect Cookie

A cookbook recipe exclusively for All-Access members from The Perfect Cookie

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

In order to really reinforce the nut flavor in our dough, we found it necessary to use equal amounts of nuts (we liked pecans or walnuts) and flour. But with all of those nuts, we found it hard to get the dough to hold together. We tried ad...

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