Mexican Wedding Cookies
Mexican wedding cookies - secret recipe of the nuns!
Ingredients
- 250 g butter room temperature
- 150 g sugar
- 3 eggs
- 200 g walnuts chopped up
- 300 g flour
- 200 g corn starch ("maizena")
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 pinch salt
- 200 g confectioners sugar
Instructions
- With the globe attachment whisk the butter in a bowl until it's creamy
- Add the sugar and mix until the sugar is fully dissolved
- Add the eggs and continue mixing
- Change to the beater attachment, add the walnuts and keep mixing
- Sift the dry ingredients (flour, maizena, baking powder, salt) into the bowl and continue mixing
- optional: chill the dough in the fridge for a few hours to solidify the fat in the cookies. Like that they keep the shape better when baked. The dough can be chilled as a whole or already rolled into small balls on a tray
- Preheat the oven to 180°C or 350°F
- Form the dough into small balls (gumball size)
- bake the cookies for 8 to 12 min
- place the cookies on a cooling rack for about 5 to 10min
- roll each cookie in the confectioners sugar so they become a nice white coating