Gluten-Free-Mexican Wedding Cookies
These Gluten Free Mexican Wedding Cookies are nutty confections that look like round snowballs and are a favorite at cookie exchanges.
Jump to RecipeRecipe card, nutritional information, images and instructions updated 12/08/2021.
I wish that I could slow down real time and add more days until Christmas because I am not ready. But I never am, so I guess it really doesn’t matter in the end. Christmas comes, ready or not, and it’s mostly always a wonderful day! (Even that Christmas where we all had the stomach flu wasn’t that bad. Okay, it totally was, but we still managed to have some fun…ugh).
I did finally order our cards and our tree is decorated and gorgeous this year. I’m getting ready to wrap today (not really a fan, I must say). At any rate, the kitchen is still humming with my usual holiday treats. And, I’ve switched to wearing all-things-stretchy until at least late January when I’m hoping to be able to button my pants again.
Last week, I had a special request for those holiday nut cookies that are shaped into balls and rolled in powdered sugar. I call them Gluten Free Mexican Wedding cookies. They are my absolute favorite cookie in the world (I think I say that about everything…). But these really are. They are buttery, crunchy and nutty.
The cookie itself isn’t particularly sweet as the sweetness comes from rolling it in powdered sugar–the same powdered sugar that can be accidentally inhaled when biting into one of these beauties causing you to choke and then run, sputtering from the room at the cookie exchange party. (Not like I would know, but be warned, my friends). These cookies are a must-have at Christmas time. Or during a Mexican wedding, apparently.
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Gluten Free Mexican Wedding Cookies
Equipment
- Parchment paper
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose gluten free flour blend
- ¼ cup almond flour
- 2 teaspoons xanthan gum omit if your flour blend already contains it
- ⅛ cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup pecan halves heaping
- 12 tablespoons butter cut into cubes (1½ sticks)
- 1 egg lightly beaten
- 2 cups additional powdered sugar for rolling
Instructions
- Pulse together flour blend, almond flour, xanthan gum if using, sugar and pecans (in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the steel blade) until nuts are finely ground. Add butter and pulse just until large crumbs form. Add the egg and pulse again, just until the dough comes together. Remove dough and wrap in plastic, shaping into a disk. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Shape dough by the tablespoonful into balls and place 1 inch apart on baking sheets. Bake in batches until lightly golden brown, about 15-20 minutes per batch.
- While cookies bake, lightly sift a layer of powdered sugar onto a baking pan with sides. When cookies are finished baking, transfer them to the sugared pan, and sprinkle additional sugar on top of each cookie. Transfer cookies to a rack to cool completely.
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