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Russian tea balls

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Categories: Cookies & Bars, Desserts, Eastern European, Russian
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Ingredients:
1 cup(2 sticks) unsalted butter
-softened
2 1/4 cupAll-purpose flour
1/2 tspSalt
2 cupSifted confectioner's sugar
3/4 cup(3 ounces) chopped walnuts
1 tspVanilla extract
Procedures:
1Position rack in center of the oven and preheat to 375 °F.
2In a large bowl combine the butter with ?cup of the confectioner"s sugar; beat with an electric mixer until fluffy, about 1 minute.
3With a spoon, stir in the vanilla, flour, salt and walnuts to form a stiff dough.
4Using about 2 teaspoons of dough for each cookie, shape half the dough by rolling between hands.
5Place about 1 ?inches apart on an ungreased baking sheet and bake about 12 minutes, until just pale golden on the bottom.
6Meanwhile, sift ?cup of the remaining confectioner"s sugar into a 13 by-9-inch pan.
7As soon as cookies are removed from the oven, use a spatula to transfer them to the sugar, tossing them around to coat; let the cookies cool completely in the sugar and then sift ?cup more sugar over them to coat.
8Repeat with the remaining cookie dough, using a cool baking sheet to bake them and the remaining ?cup confectioner"s sugar, divided as before, to coat.
9Makes 4 to 5 dozen
 
 
 
 

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