~Bizcochos~mexican wedding cookie. Delicious Caramel Cookie Bars with an amazing layer of gooey caramel stuffed in better the layers with a hint of peanut butter. In authentic Mexican cooking, lard, not shortening, is used. This recipe comes from Seasoned with Sun the El Paso Junior League Cookbook.
I made the batch twice -once following the recipe the second making some subtle changes. These traditional Mexican Christmas cookies are usually made with pecans, here we use pistachios. Mexican Wedding Cakes are a melt-in-your mouth shortbread-like cookie that goes by many names; a Russian Tea Cake, an Italian Butter Nut, a Looking at these cookies you could mistake them for Melting Moments, as the only difference between the two is that Mexican Wedding Cakes contain. You can have ~Bizcochos~mexican wedding cookie using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of ~Bizcochos~mexican wedding cookie
- It's 1 cup of sugar.
- You need 1 cup of lard.
- You need 1 cup of unsalted softened butter.
- You need 1 tsp of cinnamon.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of anaise seed.
- Prepare 2 of egg yolks.
- You need 1 cup of sweet wine or cooking sherry.
- Prepare 3 cup of flour.
- You need 1 tsp of baking powder.
- You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
- Prepare of dusting.
- You need 2 cup of powder sugar.
Crumbly, buttery, and nutty - Mexican Wedding Cookies are irresistible. Make with pecans, walnuts, almonds, or any other nut. There's something irresistible about Mexican Wedding cookies. I can't help but reach for them whenever they appear on a cookie platter.
~Bizcochos~mexican wedding cookie instructions
- preheat oven 350.
- start by creamin your lard and butter together till lighter and fluffy.add sugar, egg yolk, vanilla and beat well..
- to wet mix add flour, cinnamon, anaise & baking powder mix well.Slowly incorporate wine..
- once your dough is ready lightly flour counter and roll out dough to 1/2 inch thick.cut desired shapes..
- bake 15 minutes. as soon as they come out of oven dust in powder sugar.ENJOY.. this is my family recipe from texas..
- Note: you can substitute the wine for fruit juice such as oj or pineapple juice.
- and the original recipe calls for all lard but I like it with half butter half lard gives that flaky yummy cookie...
Mexican Wedding Cookies - melt-in-your-mouth, buttery, pecan dotted cookies are rolled in sweet blizzard of snowy white powdered sugar and you'll be savoring every Mexican Wedding Cookies. Who knew one cookie could go by some many different names! Preparation Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl until light and fluffy. These easy Mexican Wedding Cookies have walnuts in the dough and are rolled in powdered sugar so they look exactly like snowballs! Also known as Polvorones, Snowballs, or Russian Tea Cakes, these butter Mexican Wedding Cakes are one of the easiest options for your Christmas Cookie plate.