COOKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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YEAH for MAX! Cute! Thanks for showing me!

Becky, one year I made ONLY the Russian Tea Balls. Batches of them. Not a cookie left in sight by the end of Christmas day!
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Are Russian Tea Balls the same as Mexican Wedding Cookies?
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I found a photo of some cookies my sister made for a football party I hosted a few years ago:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28539958@N00/86456617/" title="pats cookies by liamsaunt, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/9/864566 ... fb6244.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="pats cookies"></a>

I don't recall the outcome of the game (I'm not a huge football fan) but the cookies were yummy!

California Girl, I am not sure if they are the same, but Russian tea balls are not very sweet, and they have chopped walnuts in the batter and are rolled in powdered sugar after cooking.
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California Girl wrote:Are Russian Tea Balls the same as Mexican Wedding Cookies?
I don't think so. Don't those have a coating on top? These are just rolled in powdered sugar. Yummy with a cup of tea on a cold day!
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Russian tea balls

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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20193753@N08/2113257159/" title="Banana Pecan Muffins by littlelamashur, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2155/211 ... 4b06_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="Banana Pecan Muffins"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20193753@N08/2113256909/" title="Chocolate Peppermint Pinwheels by littlelamashur, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2408/211 ... f57e_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="Chocolate Peppermint Pinwheels"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20193753@N08/2114035318/" title="Hungarian Coffee Cake by littlelamashur, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2379/211 ... 4b52_b.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="Hungarian Coffee Cake"></a>

I went wacky today, baking all afternoon!! The coffee cake still needs a coating of vanilla icing, but it's going in the freezer until right before Christmas. I'll frost it with vanilla butter cream.
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can i get a muffin PLEASE????????
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And I'll take 2 of those swirly chocolate things.

I used to work in an Italian bakery and the Russian Tea Balls look (and sound) like a cookie we used to make - for the life of me, I don't remember what they were called - geesh, and it was only ~40 years ago I do remember going home covered in powdered sugar. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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I did a little baking today, too. I haven't made Christmas cookies in years, but it was fun and Rick helped me frost them. Where mine are more traditional, Rick leans more toward the Picasso-esque :lol:

Oh yeah, MB and Becky - Mary Beth sent me the recipe and those are exactly the same cookies we call Mexican Wedding Balls (or cakes). I can't be around them... I hoover them!



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This thread is making me crave cookies and I NEVER eat cookies!

Margo - love your comment on Rick's cookies!
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Elizabeth, don't you know cookies are a food group?
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If you break them in half before you eat them, all the calories fall out! :lol:
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Jamestown - Could you post your recipe for the coffee cake, it looks delicious!

Thanks!

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I found this recipe in my hubby’s grandmother’s 1956 Betty Crocker Cook Book.

Hungarian Coffee Cake

½ cup warm water
2 pkg. active dry yeast
Mix and set aside

In a mixing bowl with dough hook add:
1 ½ cups lukewarm milk
½ cup sugar
Little salt
2 eggs
½ cup butter
Yeast mixture
5 ½-6 cups flour
Knead until dough pulls away from side of bowl. Place dough in greased bowl and let rise in warm place for 90 minutes.

Shape dough into walnut sized balls and roll each ball in:
½ cup melted butter; then roll in mixture of:
¾ cup sugar
1 t. cinnamon
½ cup chopped nuts

Place balls in well greased tube pan. Sprinkle raisins between layers of balls. Let rise 45 minutes. Bake at 375 for 20-25 minutes or until done. Invert onto platter.

I like to frost mine with a little vanilla butter cream.

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Jayseadee,
Those little swirley things are called Chocolate Peppermint Pinwheels. I got the recipe from The Food Network. They taste really good, but are a bit labor intensive to make. The little red, green and white colored bits are crushed candy canes. The first picture is Banana Pecan Muffins. They are to die for.
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