Wedding Cookies (Snowballs, Russian Tea Cakes)

"POPULAR cookies at parties, weddings or on a cookie tray. They melt in your mouth! Very impressive and addictive! I have been making these cookies for 45 years. These are also the same cookies that our dear "Meme" calls butter balls. Yield is approximate as it depends on how large you form each cookie. I have never known anyone to not like this cookie! I have always used real butter for this recipe."
 
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Ready In:
27mins
Ingredients:
8
Yields:
30 cookies
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ingredients

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directions

  • 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.

Questions & Replies

  1. How many calories in 1?
     
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Reviews

  1. I followed the directions, but my cookies fell. They are not nice little round balls, but more wafer shaped. They taste fine, but are wrong shape.
     
  2. Made these for a co-worker's birthday - everybody loved them and they went quickly! I'm making more now for another co-worker who requested a couple of dozen for himself! Thank you!
     
  3. Just made this cookie. It is awesome. So easy, so quick sooo good!! Melts in your melt (no kidding). I have fell in love with this 'new to me' cookie!!
     
  4. I love love love these cookies and this recipe is sooooo wonderful!!!! Thank you for posting this recipe it is so good!
     
  5. FABULOUS!!!! So tasty and buttery! These actually made more than 30, I got an astounding 36 cookies!!! I love them!
     
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<p>Thanks for taking the time to stop by My Page! I am married to a quiet, but fun loving guy who cleans up the kitchen!! I have grandchildren who I adore. I am retired from being a paralegal and a real estate agent. I have also been a substitute teacher for the elementary grades in the public school system. All of my recipes are the tried and true type. Many of them have come from my 48 years of cooking, my mother's recipe box or other relatives. I like Taste of Home magazine and I am a big fan of foodnetworkTV. I am a southern girl and enjoy comfort foods!!! I am a big cookbook collector and have been for years. I enjoy baking desserts most of all. I also enjoy games on my laptop, growing flowers, lunches with friends, babysitting grandchildren, photography and traveling. Since life is so short I try to count my blessings each day and give to the less fortunate. I had gotten into a rut on what to cook. Therefore, I am so happy I found the Recipezaar site. Pet Peeve: People with a negative attitude. MY RATING SYSTEM: 5 stars - Excellent in taste. May have minor change. 4 stars - Adjustment in ingredients for flavor. 3 stars - Fair, but not sure whether I would repeat. 2 and 1 stars - I do NOT give. Zaar EVENTS IN WHICH I PARTICIPATED: Aus/NZ Swaps #15,#16 April, May 2008 Aus/NZ Swaps #20#21#22 Sept Oct Nov 2008</p>
 
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