Prep: 10 min
Bake: 35 min
Yield: 20 cookies
Also known as Mexican Wedding Cookies, these nutty, sugar-dusted goodies are in demand on party tables from Christmas and winter holidays through to Cinco de Mayo and summer barbecues. They're easy to make and pack for traveling to parties and potlucks, and also easily customized with different kinds of nuts and extract flavorings.
- 1 cup + 2 tablespoons Swans Down® Cake Flour
- 1½ cups walnuts, finely chopped
- 2-3 tablespoons white granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- Confectioners’ sugar, for coating
- PREHEAT oven to 300°F.
- MIX together flour, walnuts, salt and sugar in a large bowl. Add vanilla extract. Add butter in little pieces and combine everything together with clean hands until the mixture looks like a coarse meal with nut bits in it.
- FORM the dough into small balls no larger than a walnut and place on the cookie sheet, spaced at least an inch apart from each other.
- BAKE approximately 30-35 minutes.
- WHILE still warm, but cool enough to touch, roll the cookies in confectioners’ sugar. Set on wire rack to cool completely. Once cool, dust with confectioners’ sugar again as needed.
Making a pineapple upside down cake now. I had forgotten about this flour ( I do not usually bake). I did make one not long ago and it was delicious!
They melt in your mouth!
These cookies are absolutely delicious. I have used Swans .Down Cake Flour for years and love all the new recipes. Thank you.
Been a long time since I used it. Just the 2 of us now.
Swansdown is all I’ve ever used for my cakes.
Swans down is my only baking flour. Always turns out perfect ! No need for any other kind..thank you Swans down 💖
Super easy. I put the sheet of rolled cookies in the refrigerator until I was ready to bake.
I love Swanson; I bake for extra money and I love it. I really have never used any other brand of cake flower except Swans Down; this is what my awesome baking mama used. Never had an error, yet; Swans Down never failed me.thanks for sharing your recipes as I haven’t tried any yet. If you come across the old lemon cheese cake icing for the 50’s please let me know at marti_mulling@yahoo.com.
Hi Martha, Thanks for being a loyal Swans Down baking enthusiast. We’re looking into the lemon cheesecake icing. Happy baking!
There are so many yummy things you can make with this one very ingredient! You won’t regret it once you taste the great master piece you have made!
Yummy
My Mother used to use this product !!!
I love to bake, it’s been a long time since I use Swansdown.I anxious to start using it again.