Recipe: Yummy Easy to Make Russian Tea Cookies

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Easy to Make Russian Tea Cookies. There's no feeling quite as blissful as your first bite of one of these cookies. Whether you call them Russian tea cakes, Mexican wedding cookies or snowballs, there's no denying that they're essential to bake during the Christmas season. A shortbread-like dough, studded with chopped nuts, bakes up to a texture that's beautifully sandy and tender, never dry or crumbling to bits.

If the jam looks a bit runny, put it in the microwave to evaporate some of the excess moisture off.

It should come out thick enough to spread easily.

Grind the tea leaves up in a mill or mortar and pestle.

You can cook Easy to Make Russian Tea Cookies using 6 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Easy to Make Russian Tea Cookies

1. It’s 90 grams of Cake flour.

2. You need 30 grams of Sugar.

3. Prepare 2 tbsp of Vegetable oil.

4. Prepare 2 tbsp of Milk.

5. It’s 1 tsp of Tea bags.

6. It’s 1 of Jam.

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I thought of this recipe after thinking about Russian tea.

Please adjust the temperature and cooking time according to the make of your oven.

If the tea that comes out of your tea bag is already quite fine you can add it in as-is.

Easy to Make Russian Tea Cookies instructions

1. If the jam looks a bit runny, put it in the microwave to evaporate some of the excess moisture off. It should come out thick enough to spread easily. Preheat the oven to 170℃. Sift the cake flour. Grind the tea leaves up in a mill or mortar and pestle..

2. Add the milk and vegetable oil to a bowl and mix well..

3. Add the pre-sifted flour to the bowl and mix well again. Then add the tea..

4. Mix everything together with a rubber spatula until the mixture comes together..

5. Add the mixture to a piping bag..

6. Pipe the mixture out onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake for 15 minutes in an oven preheated to 180℃..

7. Once baked, cool on a wire rack..

8. After theyve cooled a little, sandwich the cookie halves together with the jam..

9. You can use whatever jam you like! Orange jam or milk jams also go well these cookies..

Looking at these cookies you could mistake them for melting moments, as only difference between the two is that Russian tea cake contains ground nuts (either hazelnuts, walnuts, almonds or pecans).

The secret to great the testing of Russian tea cake is to use a high quality pure vanilla extract and butter.

Make these cookies even more special by toasting the pecans: Spread nuts in a single layer on a rimmed baking sheet.

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.

No holiday is complete without a plate filled with these sweet and delicious bite sized cookies.