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Recipe for Mexican Bride Cookies
Pastelitos de Boda

Mexican bride cookies - also known as pastelitos de boda - are a sort of Mexican shortbread cookies. They are very easy to make and they are melt in your mouth delicious.

Technically, pastelitos de boda means little wedding cakes. As I made this recipe I realized these cookies are just similar to what we call snowball cookies and serve around Christmas time. No matter, this is another great cookie recipe to add to your "arsenal."

Try these wonderful Mexican cookies and let us know what you think. If you have another recipe to share, please do so.

Pastelitos de Boda - Comments and reviews.

Mexican Shortbread Cookies: Ingredients

1 cup of butter - softened

1/2 cup of sugar

2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

2 cups of all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon of salt

1 cup of walnuts - chopped very fine - I use the Pampered Chef chopper, works like a charm!

1/4 cup of heavy cream

Powdered sugar - optional

Mexican Bride Cookies: Method

In a stand mixer - or with a hand mixer - cream the butter and sugar together until creamy and almost white in color.

Add the vanilla and the cream and combine well.

Sift the flour and the salt together and add to the butter mixture. Mix until well blended. Add the walnuts and combine thoroughly.

Roll the dough into a log about 2 inches in diameter and refrigerate for a couple of hours. An alternative is to put the dough in the freezer for about 45 minutes.

Remove from the fridge and slice. Place the cookies onto an UNgreased cookie sheet.

Bake at 375 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes. Cool for about five minutes before removing to a plate or a cookie rack.

Sprinkle with powdered sugar if you choose to.

Makes 3 dozen cookies.

If you are creative and artistic, you can decorate your cookies. Roll the dough as you would a sugar cookie dough, cut it with cookies cutters and decorate! (See example below).