Mexican Wedding Cakes Cookies. I’ve always known them as mexican wedding cookies, but they also go by the name of snowball cookies, pecan sandies, russian tea cakes, italian wedding cookies, and polvorones. In a medium bowl, beat together the butter, sugar, vanilla and food coloring until fluffy, about 2 minutes.
8 people talking join in. Russian tea cake is a kind of pastry, often eaten around christmas in the united states. Mexican wedding cookies (also known as snowball cookies, or russian tea cakes, among other names depending on where you’re from) are very simple and delicious cookies.
No matter what you call them, the recipe is always the same:
It took me a while to realize that those mexican wedding cookies, so liked this side of the border, are what i love and know as polvorones. To the eye, these cookies all look the same, they are round and covered in powdered sugar. One of mexico’s most popular treats, consumed on an every day basis, and found in just about every panadería (bakery) and any grocery store throughout the whole country. Mexican wedding cakes aka polovorones were absolutely simple to make with this recipe from epicurious.