This post may contain affiliate links.Please read our disclosure policy.An unassuming fluffy little cookie that is a mandatory addition to a holiday cookie platter.

Mexican Wedding Cookies are tender, crumbly little shortbread cookies studded with nuts and coated in powdered sugar while they’re still warm.It’s one of my favorite cookie box recipes! You might not know the exact name of these cookies, but everyone knows they love them when they see them on a cookie plate or in a cookie box.They’re super tender–almost to the point of being crumbly.

Perfectly buttery, sweet and with a satisfying crunch from a few pecans or walnuts stirred in.Other names I’ve heard for Mexican Wedding Cookies: Russian Tea Cakes or Swedish Tea Cakes, not to be confused with my Tea Cakes that are a Southern cookie with nutmeg not rolled in powdered sugar.Polvorones is the other name I commonly call these, which is Spanish for powder, which I assume refers to the powdered sugar coating on these (the best part of the cookie!) Snowball cookies, because they look like perfectly round little snowballs! Pecan Sandies is something other people might say, but in my book, Pecan Sandies do not have a powdered sugar coating! Also, pecan sandies are made with crushed pecans in the dough, not just chopped pecans stirred in.

My Pecan Shortbread recipe is more similar to a Pecan Sandie than these cookies! Viennese crescents are really similar to these cookies, but they’re r

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