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
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...