Easy Russian Tea Cookies (No Nuts)

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Powdery and delicious snowball like cookies. Perfect for a last minute Christmas cookie. These cookies are super good and a good choice to make with kids.

These are one of the first cookies I ever learned to make and is one of my favorites. You can add crushed up nuts to them if you like, but I never cared for that. I prefer them “nutless”. Haha.

Anyway… these are so easy to make, that I’ll usually throw them in with all the other Christmas cookies I make. It’s an easy filler cookie, which is just as tasty as the more time consuming desserts. Really helps those cookie gift boxes look fancy and overflowing with treats.

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Russian Tea Cookies (No Nuts)

Author: Katie

Ingredients

• 1 cup of butter softened
• ½ cup confectioners sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 ¼ cups flour
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1-1 ½ cups of confectioners sugar for dusting the cookies when done

Instructions

• Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.
• Mix butter and ½ confectioners sugar until light and fluffy. Add in vanilla,
• Add in flour and salt. Beat until combined.
• Cover and refrigerate dough for 1 hour until firm.
• Form into 1” balls and place on a parchment lined cookie sheet. Space about 1 ½” apart.
• Bake for 8 – 10 minutes, until lightly golden on the bottom. Let cool for about 5 minutes.
• In a square baking dish or large shallow bowl pour the 1 to 1 ½ cups of confectioners sugar.
• Roll the still warm cookies in the sugar till completely covered. Make sure you get the bottom of each cookie.

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