Russian Tea Cookies

"These cookies are a "must-have" at Christmas with our family. My mom used to roll them into nice little crescent shapes but I usually roll them into balls. I posting here in order not to lose the recipe...it's scribbled on a piece of scrap paper right now."
 
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Ready In:
20mins
Ingredients:
6
Yields:
36-40 cookies
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 400.
  • Cream butter, sugar and almond extract.
  • Gradually stir in flour and salt.
  • Add nuts and stir until well blended.
  • Roll dough into teaspoon sized balls.
  • Place on greased cookie sheet.
  • BAke at 400 for 10-12 minutes, or until bottoms are light golden color.
  • While still hot roll cookies in additional powdered sugar. I usually roll them at least 2 times.

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Reviews

  1. These are so easy to make yet so elegant and decicious. Just the recipe I was looking for! I used walnuts instead of pecans and that was good too.
     
  2. This is the exact recipe I grew up with. Marvelous, easy to do; we always made them into balls too. Christmas cookie baking was never complete without them. Great flaky, buttery goodness. Sometimes we would wrap the dough around a whole pecan which is nice as well.
     
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  1. These are so easy to make yet so elegant and decicious. Just the recipe I was looking for! I used walnuts instead of pecans and that was good too.
     

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