Best Russian Tea Cookies Recipes

RUSSIAN TEA COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a large bowl, cream butter and 1/2 cup powdered sugar until smooth. Add almond and vanilla extracts. Slowly add flour and salt to butter mixture, and mix until incorporated. Mix in pecans and walnuts.
• Use a cookie scooper to scoop the dough and then roll into balls (or use your hands to form 1" balls). Bake for 10-12 minutes. (These cookies barely brown, so if they don't look done, it's okay!).
• Roll in powdered sugar while still warm, and roll again when cool.

WEDDING COOKIES (SNOWBALLS, RUSSIAN TEA CAKES)

Steps:

• Blend softened butter with powdered sugar. Add vanilla.
• Mix in salt, baking powder, flour and chopped pecans.
• Form dough into 1 inch balls or flattened cookies and place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake in a 325 degree oven for 12 minutes, until firm but not brown. While hot roll in powdered sugar. Let cool and roll again in powdered sugar.

TROPICAL HAWAIIAN SNOWBALLS (HAWAIIAN-STYLE RUSSIAN TEA COOKIES)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line 5 cookie sheets with parchment paper, or spray with cooking spray.
• In a large bowl, cream together butter, sugar and vanilla and coconut extracts.
• Sift together the flour and the salt.
• Slowly add to the butter mixture.
• Add nuts. Mix until blended well.
• Roll into small, bite sized balls. (about 3/4 of an ounce or 2 tablespoons). I like to use a small #40 portion disher (small, 3/4 ounce sized, ice cream scoop) and place 1-inch apart on prepared cookie sheet.
• Bake for 10-13 minutes, or until slightly golden.
• While still warm, (not hot, not cold) roll through powdered sugar.
• Keeps about a week (but they won't be around that long) in an air-tight container.

RUSSIAN TEA CAKES / MEXICAN WEDDING CAKES (COOKIES)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.
• Toast nuts. Place nuts on a separate baking sheet and bake for about 8 minutes (or until lightly brown and fragrant) in a 350 degree F oven. Cool.
• Once the nuts have cooled completely place them, along with 2 tablespoons of the flour for the recipe, into your food processor, fitted with a metal blade, and process until they are finely ground (but not a paste). Or the nuts can be hand chopped until very fine. Set aside.
• In the bowl of your electric mixer (or with a hand mixer), cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy (about 2 minutes).
• Beat in the vanilla extract.
• Add the remaining flour and salt and beat until combined.
• Stir in the nuts.
• Cover and refrigerate the dough for about 1 hour or until firm.
• Once the dough is firm, form the dough into 1 inch (2.54 cm) balls and place 2 inches (5 cm) apart on the prepared baking sheets.
• Bake about 12-15 minutes, or until the edges of the cookies start to brown.
• Remove from oven and place on a wire rack to cool for about 5 minutes.
• Roll the semi-cool cookies in the sifted powdered sugar and return to rack to cool completely.
• Store in airtight container for up to 10 days.

SECRET KISS COOKIES/RUSSIAN TEA CAKES WITH A TWIST

Steps:

• 1. Beat butter, granulated sugar and vanilla in large bowl until fluffy.
• 2. Add flour and walnuts and beat on low speed of mixer until well blended.
• 3. Cover and refrigerate 1 to 2 hours or until dough is firm enough to handle.
• 4. Heat oven to 375°F.
• 5. Shape about 1 tablespoon of dough around each hersheys kiss and roll to make ball. (Make sure chocolate is completely covered) Put cookies on ungreased cookie sheet.
• 6. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until cookies are set but not brown.
• 7. Cool slightly. While cookies are still slightly warm, roll them in powdered sugar. Cool completely. (I roll mine again after cooled)
• 8. If you prefer you can mix together cocoa and powdered sugar and roll them in that.

RUSSIAN TEA COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400.
• Cream butter, sugar and almond extract.
• Gradually stir in flour and salt.
• Add nuts and stir until well blended.
• Roll dough into teaspoon sized balls.
• Place on greased cookie sheet.
• BAke at 400 for 10-12 minutes, or until bottoms are light golden color.
• While still hot roll cookies in additional powdered sugar. I usually roll them at least 2 times.

RUSSIAN TEA COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Mix thoroughly butter, sugar and vanilla.
• Work in flour, salt and nuts until the dough holds together.
• Shape the dough into 1 inch balls and place them on an ungreased baking sheet.
• Bake 12 - 15 mnutes until set but not brown.
• While warm, roll in confectioners' sugar. Cool and roll in sugar again.

RUSSIAN TEA COOKIES.

Steps:

• 1. Butter at room temp.beat with icing sugar and vanilla extract, BEAT EVERYTHING by HEAND ,TILL the END. Its easy.
• 2. Sift 1 cup flower into it with pinch of salt, make a dough.Shape the dough into thick pie , flat it, cut int 4 quarters. Each quarter roll into log, divide log into 5 pices, each piece roll into log and shape into qruasant.
• 3. Place each qruasante on cookie shit with parachament paper. Bake at 325 F, (gas stove 17 min.)other stove 15-20 min. In the midlle rack.Take out rightaway, sprinkle with 1pkg. Vanilla sugar mix with 3tbl.icing sugar. Let cool down totally, place in air seal cointainer, and enjoy with you tea.

RUSSIAN TEA COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter, add sugar, cream together. Add flour gradually. Work in vanilla, salt & nuts. Form into balls 1" & pat down with glass dipped in flour. Bake 14 - 17 minutes @ 350. Coat hot cookies with powdered sugar. Cool on rack & coat with powdered sugar. Watch carefully as the cookies burn easily.