Mexican Wedding Cookies

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine
• 1/2 cup sifted powdered sugar
• 2 teaspoons water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup toasted almonds or 1/2 cup toasted pecans
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon finely shredded orange rind or 1/2 teaspoon finely shredded lemon peel or 1/2 teaspoon finely shredded tangerine peel
• powdered sugar

Recipe

• 1 in a large mixer bowl beat the butter until softened.
• 2 add powdered sugar and beat until fluffy.
• 3 add water& vanilla and beat well.
• 4 stir in flour, nuts& cinnamon (or peel if you are using that).
• 5 shape dough into 1-inch balls.
• 6 flatten slightly with the bottom of a glass that has been dipped in powdered sugar.
• 7 if the dough is hard to handle chill it for a while.
• 8 place cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• 9 bake 325f degrees for 18-20 minutes or until lightly browned.
• 10 cool on cookie sheet for 5 minutes.
• 11 remove cookies and roll in powdered sugar.
• 12 cool throughly on wire racks.
• 13 traditionally each cookie is wrapped in tissue paper then twist the top and shred the ends so the cookies look like bon bons.