Oatmeal Chocolate Coconut Cookies

As I mentioned in my previous post, the weather in the great NC has been rather fickle. We are just now getting a major heat wave! I have been taking advantage cool weather and been baking like crazy. You don't dare turn the oven on in the summer! Even with air conditioning, cranking an oven to 350 degrees will take the starch out of your undies. 

Russian Teacakes

Today is the annual Brown family Christmas cookie baking and Christmas movie watching day. One cookie that I absolutely LOVE that I always make is the Russian Teacake. It's a small shortbread cookie with nuts, rolled in powdered sugar.




The goods:
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 & 1/4 cups flour
3/4 cups chopped nuts (I use walnuts, but any kind of nut will work)
1/4 teaspoon salt




The details:

1) Preheat the oven to 400 degrees

2) Mix together butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla until mixed together thoroughly. Stir in flour, nuts and salt

3) Roll dough into 1 inch balls, place on cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes, or until cookies are set. (Note: The cookies should be just barely brown on the bottom when you are ready to pull them out of the oven.)

4) Pull the cookies off the cookie sheet and roll them in a bowl of powdered sugar until completely coated



It's nothing too fancy-smancy or sweet, but it sure is a tasty little thing. Merry Christmas, ya'll!!

~Emma