Mexican Wedding Cake Cookies With Pecans. In a food processor, pulse pecans, flour, granulated sugar, cinnamon, and salt until mixture resembles coarse meal; Cool cookies completely on wire racks.
Line cookies sheets with parchment paper. Mexican wedding cookies we thought it was about time we shared the recipe to one of our traditional christmas cookie recipes, mexican wedding cookies (or snowballs!). I love wedding cookies and would really like to make some, i would really appreciate any advise.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
For some reason these cookies go by a number of different names. Some believe the recipe originated in eastern europe. Mexican wedding cookies traditionally use pecans, but you can make the cookies with walnuts or almonds, or even hazelnuts or pistachios if you like. Immediately roll hot cookies in the confectioners sugar.