Chef John's Russian Tea Cakes
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 cup finely chopped toasted walnuts
- ⅓ cup confectioners' sugar, packed
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar for dusting, or more as needed
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Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Arrange a rack in the center position of the oven. Line a rimmed baking sheet with a silicone mat.
- Place butter, walnuts, 1/3 cup packed powdered sugar, vanilla, and salt in a large bowl. Top with 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons flour. Mix with clean hands until dough starts to clump up. Keep mixing by hand until all flour and clumps of butter are evenly mixed into dough.
- Scoop out dough and roll by hand into uniformly round balls, just slightly larger than 1 inch. Place about 2 inches apart on the prepared baking sheet.
- Bake in the preheated oven until lightly golden, 15 to 25 minutes depending on the size of cookies.
- Let cool for exactly 5 minutes, then roll warm cookies in 1 cup confectioners' sugar in a medium bowl. Let cookies cool completely, then toss them again in confectioners' sugar.
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