{"id":402,"date":"2010-12-23T15:38:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T21:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/?p=402"},"modified":"2010-12-23T15:38:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T21:38:47","slug":"mexican-wedding-cakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/mexican-wedding-cakes\/","title":{"rendered":"“Mexican Wedding Cakes”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Butterballs, Russian Tea Cake<\/h1>\n

Yesterday\u00a0I set out to make Mexican Wedding Cakes, I new darn well that they in fact were not Mexican or wedding cakes so why on earth did we call them that?\u00a0 My research on this didn’t bring me any really good answers or even a <blockquote> to enhance the smartness of this page.\u00a0 All I found is that they were call Russian Tea Cakes until about the 1950s when the Mexican Wedding Cake term started being used.\u00a0 The guess is that it was because of our strained relationship with Russia at the time.\u00a0 Hmmm, can anyone say “Freedom Fries”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tea Cakes are a from of a Jumble,\u00a0which is a cookie like pastry that dates back to the middle ages. Somewhere along the way\u00a0someone decided butter > water, bet that is when they started calling them butterballs.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/h2>\n

1 cup of finely chopped nuts (almonds, pecans or walnuts will do)
\n1\/2 cup of powdered sugar
\n8 oz (1 cup) of softened butter
\n2\u00a0teaspoon of vanilla
\n1\/4 teaspoon of salt
\n2 cups of all purpose flour
\nPowdered sugar to roll the cookies in<\/p>\n

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\nMy first task was to chop the nuts, and since I am incredibly efficient today (read that as LAZY) I added 1 cup of frozen walnuts to my Kitchen Aid Mini chopper<\/a>. Historically my family has used pecans for these cookies but since I have left over walnuts from making pesto it made more sense to use them.\u00a0 I couldn’t tell the difference in the taste so I guess that means it is okay. Start by creaming together the butter, powdered sugar\u00a0and vanilla. Slowly add the flour and salt to form a dough.\u00a0 Now the fun part, making even sized balls of dough.\u00a0 I used my cookie scoop but the cookies are\u00a0large enough that you need to take 2 bites giving you a great opportunity to get powdered sugar all down the front of you.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09 Note to\u00a0self get a smaller scoop for next time.\u00a0\u00a0These won’t spread so\u00a0there is no need to give them too much room on the baking sheet.\u00a0
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Bake\u00a0for 15-20 min\u00a0at 325 degrees you want them golden but not brown.\u00a0 I switch from the bottom rack to the top rack midway through the baking time.\u00a0 Once out of the oven roll them in powdered sugar and let sit to cool.\u00a0
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\n\u00a0After they have cooled completely roll\u00a0in powdered sugar\u00a0again.\u00a0 YUM!!\u00a0They are ready to eat.<\/p>\n

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Butterballs, Russian Tea Cake <\/p>\n

Yesterday I set out to make Mexican Wedding Cakes, I new darn well that they in fact were not Mexican or wedding cakes so why on earth did we call them that? My research on this didn’t bring me any really good answers or even a <blockquote> to enhance the smartness of this page. All I found is that they were call Russian Tea Cakes until about the 1950s when the Mexican Wedding Cake term started being used. The guess is that it was because of our strained relationship with Russia at the time. Hmmm, can anyone say “Freedom Fries”. <\/p>\n

Tea Cakes are a from . . . → Read More: “Mexican Wedding Cakes”<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,142,70],"tags":[95,169,94,71,298,300,171,168,170],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-leisure","category-from-the-kitchen","category-holiday","tag-baking","tag-butter-balls","tag-cookies","tag-cooking","tag-food","tag-holiday","tag-jumble","tag-mexican-wedding-cakes","tag-russian-tea-cakes","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}