Italian Wedding Cookies

By srumbel

Italian Wedding Cookies are delicious little, powdered sugar coated, butter cookie bites with almonds.
from peartreekitchen.com

Ingredients

• 1 cup salted butter, softened
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons water
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup sliced almonds, crushed by hand
• 1 cup powdered sugar for rolling

Details

Preparation time 195mins
Cooking time 207mins

Preparation

Step 1

In a large mixing bowl cream together butter, granulated sugar, vanilla, and water.

Add flour, all at once, and mixed until all of the flour has been incorporated.

Once the dough has come together, crush the almonds with your hands and add to the dough.

Mix just until the almonds are evenly distributed.

Roll cookie dough into 1 to 1 ½-inch balls and place onto a cookie sheet.

Place cookie balls into the refrigerator and allow to chill for at least 2 hours.

Cookie dough can be left in the refrigerator overnight, but make sure to cover them for any amount of time longer than 3 hours.

After cookies have been chilled, preheat an oven to 325 Degrees F.

Bake cookies in preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the bottoms of the cookies have turned a honey brown.

Allow the cookies to sit for 1 minute and the cookie remove to a cooling rack.

Once cookies have been completely cooled, roll in powdered sugar.

Yield: 48 Cookies