Fudge is my favorite Christmas candy and this is my favorite Christmas cookie. My mom made these every year. I remember getting up at 5 in the morning before everyone else to get ready for school. I would sit on the kitchen floor with my dog and pop one of these cookies into my mouth and then pop one into my dog’s. We both loved our early morning treat sooo much.
Walnut Butter Cookies
1 cup butter
6 Tbsp. sugar
2 cups flour
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup nuts
powdered sugar
Cream butter and sugar together. Add flour, vanilla and nuts. Roll into walnut sized balls onto a greased cookie sheet and lightly flatten. Bake at 400° for 10 minutes. Remove from oven, place on waxed paper and sprinkle with or roll in powdered sugar.
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photo by: little blue hen
These cookies are outstanding! And make perfect teacher/sunday school teacher kind of gifts.
These cookies sure look good. Like snowballs too.
do you use self rising flour or all purpose?
all purpose. Usually all purpose is used in most recipes unless otherwise stated.
Looks like my kinda cookie recipe! Easy and good!
These cookies and wonderful and travel really well-they are good ones to mail, also. I’ve heard them called Russian Tea Cookies, too. But, they are delish!
Jill, Today is the Feast Day of St. Ambrose in the Catholic Church, and he is the Patron Saint of Gingerbread Makers, so I thought of you and your gingerbread cookies. May he send you a blessing!
I never knew there was such a person Bea. That is too cool.
these look delish .. thanks for sharing ..
These are yummy! In Minnesota, where I grew up, we called these cookies Swedish Heirlooms. They are also called Russian Teacakes. My mother made them every year, and so do I.
Jill, I thought it was real cool too when I found out there was a Patron Saint for gingerbread makers. I just found out this year, a few months ago, and immediately thought of you.
We call them wedding cookies in the south
funny how names of things change with the areas.
my grandmother had a recipe for Radio pudding, she got it off the radio one time and never called it anything else. Was kind of hard finding the recipe later because I never knew the proper name. All people of her generation in that town called it radio pudding.
another bar cookie I got one day while selling girl guide cookies and talking with an older lady was for Matrimonial Bars. I was quite impressed and went home and asked mom if I could make them. She said sure and read the recipe to see if we had everything and said they are just date squares. I sure like matrimonial bars as they sounded so grown up and exotic.
We call your biscuits tea biscuits in Ontario anyway and I think all across Canada but not sure. I think tea biscuits came from the British war brides and maybe that was to differentiate them from scones.
I love hearing different names for the same foods keep you guessing.
add mexican wedding cookies to the pot:)
Add some rum and they are called Rum Balls.
We use pecans and call them Pecan Sandies.