(Surprise!) Russian Tea Cakes
photo by Divaconviva
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
-
36 cookies
ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1⁄2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 2 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 cup chopped nuts
- 9 vanilla caramels
- extra confectioners' sugar or colored sugar crystals
directions
- Heat oven to 400°. Mix thoroughly butter, confectioners' sugar and vanilla. Work in flour, salt and nuts until dough holds together.
- Cut each vanilla caramel into 4 small pieces. Divide dough in 36 portions and mold each around a small piece of caramel.
- Bake 10-12 minutes until set but not brown. While warm, roll in confectioner's sugar or sugar crystals and cool.
- Makes 36 cookies.
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Reviews
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VERY nice. Definitely sweet, and definitely easy to make. Since the amount of vanilla wasn't listed, I used 1 tsp. of vanilla extract - perfect! For the chopped nuts, I used finely grated toasted hazelnuts. I find using a good kitchen scale very helpful when baking. I took the ball of dough & weighed it; then divided into two and weighed each half to make them equal. That made it much easier to apportion 18 balls and 18 balls for making the cookies equal-sized. I baked them on my Pampered Chef Baking Stone. Made for ZWT4. Thanks for posting, Julie!
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