While the cookies are still hot from the oven, roll them in a dish of confectioners' sugar. Cool on a rack. Wrap well with plastic, and place in an airtight container.

The cookies are a variation on a Mexican wedding cookie and Russian tea cakes recipe. They’re basically barely sweet nut balls rolled in powdered sugar. When I was a kid, we knew them as ...

Nothing signals Christmas quite like a snowball cookie. Whether you call them Russian tea cakes, Mexican wedding cookies, polvorones, or something else entirely, they’re an essential part of ...