Hello.
Welcome to Hilah Cooking.
We've been getting a lot of requests for desserts and cookies, and stuff like that.
I figured since it's closing in on Christmas, I would show you how to make
some Christmas cookies.
I like to make Christmas cookies every year, and
I take pretty little bags of them to my neighbors.
There's an unwritten understanding that if I bring them
cookies once a year, they will not rob my house.
It works out really well for everyone.
I am going to show you how to make Mexican wedding cookies
today, so ole.
Super-simple; you just got some butter and I'm going to cream that together
with some powdered sugar.
I'm going to save this wrapper to grease my cookie sheet later.
I'm just going to do 1/4 -cup of powdered sugar, but I've
got extra here for rolling the cookies in.
I'm just going to cream this together.
If you have a mixer, you can use that, but whatever.
It's old- timey to do it with a wooden spoon.
That looks good.
I'm going to add a little bit of vanilla, about a teaspoon.
Look at the daredevil that I am; I didn't even measure that.
This recipe's cool because it doesn't have any eggs in it, so if you're
allergic to eggs, this is the cookie for you.
I'm going to add the flour and the nuts, and mix that together, and then
we're ready to cook.
I got these pecans that you could grind them in
a . . . you could grind them in a food processor or a blender, but I like to
chop them by hand because then you end up with little pieces of varying sizes.
You can see this is really stiff, and now I'm going to go ahead and put
the nuts in.
At this point, it might just be easiest to use my hands and get those
little nuts evenly distributed.
Wicked.
Now I'm going to roll some balls.
I'm going to use this from before, like that, to grease this cookie sheet.
Pretty ingenious if I say so myself.
Now you can see it.
Then you just want to pinch off balls about an inch around.
It should be just the right size to eat in one bite.
That's how I like them anyway.
Last one, but poopsies; I need to rearrange a little bit and cram
these last 3 on there.
Let's see.
It's like that magic shell game.
Everybody's happy.
Now I'm going to put these in the oven for about 15 minutes.
We'll see.
Cookies are done, man.
You just want them just a tiny bit brown on the
bottom.
Now I'll put them on the cooling rack.
They fell through.
They're tiny.
Cool off little cookies, cool off.
These little babies are cooled off now.
I've got my bowl of powdered sugar, and I'm just going to gently toss
them around in that, and then put them on a plate.
Super easy.
They look like little snowballs.
Now I will eat one for you, for me too.
They're so light and crispy, and they get powdered sugar
everywhere.
It's very festive.
Try these when you make Christmas cookies for your neighbors and then maybe
they won't rob you.
Merry Christmas.