Despite its name, this cookie was invented in America and the reason he was called Russian is unknown. May be due to the shape of the snowballs? Cookies baked from simple ingredients in in the form of snow-white balls coated with powdered sugar. For his all you need is butter, powdered sugar, flour, pecans and vanilla. And to make the cookies more festive taste, mix slices of candied cherries in the dough. Ready Balls crumble twice in icing sugar, while still warm, to icing densely covered cookies. As a result, it turns out extraordinarily melting in the mouth, with an excellent taste combination of pecans and вишни. 
Photo of the dish: Лори ЭннGray Time: 1 hour. 40 min Difficulty: easy Quantity: 48 cookies The recipes use measured containers with a volume of: 1 glass (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cups (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp. l.) – 15 ml. 1 teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 1 tbsp. butter
- 0.5 tbsp. powdered sugar + optionally for sprinkling
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 and 1/4 Art. premium flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 Art. finely chopped pecans
- 0.5 tbsp. candied cherries chopped
Recipes with similar ingredients: premium flour, pecans, cherry
Recipe preparation:
- Beat butter thoroughly with powdered sugar and vanilla. Sift flour and salt, add to the oil mixture and mix. Stir in nuts and cherries and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 200 ° C.
- Roll balls with a diameter of 2.5 cm from the dough and put them on ungreased baking sheet (they will not spread when baking). Bake until ready, but they should not be browned for about 10 minutes.
- While the balls are still warm, but are already frozen, roll them in icing sugar and cool. Then roll in sugar again powder.
