Truly one of the most delicious and easy cookies, ever! I have also heard them called Butternut Balls and Mexican Wedding Cakes.
MELTAWAYS
Butter Nut Cookies
1 Cup of butter(please don't use margarine--ick!)
1/4 Cup of sugar
2 Cups of flour
1 Tablespoon (yes, that's a Tablespoon) vanilla
1 1/2 Cups of chopped nuts--I like walnuts, but pecans would do if you can swing them
Powdered sugar
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. (Yes, that's 300, not 350.) Cream the butter. Add everything else except the powdered sugar. Roll into balls about the size of a walnut. Put on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 35 minutes.
Let them cool until you can handle them (they'll still be a little warm) and then roll them in the powdered sugar.
Enjoy!
PS--if you ever read my old blog, "Sorta Frugal," this is a copy and paste from that. But yummy is worth repeating!
I make these and have for years. The recipe called them Russian Teacakes. They are delicious! I don't know why I just make them at Christmas.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite too
ReplyDeleteI don't know why I don't make a lot of cookie recipes other times of the year, either. It's like chocolate chip and peanut butter rules from January-November, LOL!
ReplyDeleteAnd all the different names...who knows the origin, but can you blame any country for wanting to claim these as its own, LOL?