Swedish Tea Cakes

[spryte]

Swedish Tea Cakes


1 C butter (softened)

1/2 C powdered sugar

2 tsp vanilla

2 C flour

1/4 tsp salt

1 C ground pecans or almonds



Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cream together, butter, powdered sugar and vanilla blend

blend in remaining ingredients. Form dough into 1 in balls. Place on ungreased cookie

sheet 1 inch apart. Bake 15 - 20 minutes, until set, but not browned. Cool slightly and

roll in powdered sugar. When totally cool, roll in powdered sugar again.

 

[aruzinsky]

Thank you. I notice that you also gave a recipe for Tosca Cookies. It seems to me that this recipe is a cookie and the other recipe is a cake. Could the names have been switched here?

 

[spryte]

hehehe... nope the names are correct. I've also seen this recipe called Russian Tea Cakes and Mexican Wedding Cookies. Although the Mexican Wedding Cookie is more cookie shaped and the Russian/Swedish Tea Cakes are ball shaped. But I would also call the Tosca cookies a tart or a tartlette.

 

[Chopstix]

Thanks spryte. I'll keep this on file as a variation of the Russian Tea Cakes/Greek cookies. I'll try this if the other recipe does not yield the texture of cookies I'm looking for.

 

[Juliev]

Tack så mycket, Spryte, for the great recipe! .. that means thank you very much in swedish.