These Besuretocook traditional Mexican wedding cookies recipe are tender, delicate, and full of rich, buttery pecan lemon flavor. Dusted in powdered sugar, they're perfect for holidays and special occasions, such as weddings. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ **Prep Time:** 15 minutes ⏱ **Cook Time:** 13–16 minutes ⏱ **Total Time:** 30 minutes 🍽 **Servings:** About 24 cookies ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧂 **Ingredients** • 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour • 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon • 1/2 tsp salt • 1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks, softened) • 1 cup powdered sugar (confectioners’ sugar), divided • 1 tsp vanilla extract • 1 tsp lemon extract • 1/2 cup pecans, toasted and finely chopped ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👩🍳 **Instructions** 1. **Toast the Pecans** Heat a pan over medium heat. Add 1/2 cup pecans and toast until fragrant, stirring frequently. Let cool, then pulse in a food processor until finely chopped.
2. **Mix Dry Ingredients** In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cinnamon, and salt. Set aside.
3. **Cream the Butter** In a separate large bowl, cream softened butter until smooth. Gradually add 1 cup powdered sugar, mixing in two additions until fully blended.
4. **Add Flavoring** Mix in vanilla extract and lemon extract until fully incorporated.
5. **Combine Dough** Add half the flour mixture into the butter mixture and mix by hand. Add remaining flour and mix until dough forms. Fold in chopped pecans and knead until smooth.
6. **Shape Cookies** Scoop dough using a small cookie scoop and roll into round balls. Place onto a baking sheet lined with parchment or silicone liner.
7. **Bake** Bake at **350°F for 13–16 minutes**, watching after 10 minutes so edges do not brown.
8. **Coat in Powdered Sugar** While warm, gently roll cookies in powdered sugar. Let cool slightly, then coat again for a thick, snowy finish. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 **Video Timestamps** 0:00 – Welcome & intro 0:14 – Toasting the pecans 0:27 – Mixing flour, cinnamon & salt 0:57 – Creaming the butter 1:14 – Adding powdered sugar 1:36 – Adding vanilla & lemon extract 1:58 – Processing the pecans 2:13 – Combining dry mix & forming dough 2:54 – Adding pecans & kneading 3:01 – Scooping cookie dough 3:48 – Baking instructions 4:12 – Finished cookies reveal 4:25 – Powdered sugar coating 5:08 – Final results & break open cookie 5:27 – Serving ideas 6:01 – Outro & subscribe ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 **Serving Suggestions** Perfect for weddings, Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year’s and holiday cookie platters. Delicious with hot cocoa, coffee or tea!
Welcome back to another episode of Be Sure to Cook.
Today, we're gonna be making Mexican wedding cookies.
So stay tuned and let's do this.
Okay, I got a nice, warm, hot pan here.
I'm gonna be toasting some pecans.
And I've got whole pecans.
I'm gonna put about a half cup of pecans in the pan
and I wanna toast these up really nice.
Okay, in a medium bowl,
I've got one and three-fourths cup of all-purpose flour.
Okay, I've got one-fourth teaspoon
of good, fresh ground cinnamon.
Okay, I got my little whisk here.
I'm just gonna mix this all up
with the cinnamon, everything.
Okay, now I'm gonna add a half teaspoon of salt.
Okay, after this has been incorporated,
we're gonna set this aside.
We're gonna get another bowl.
We're gonna do our other ingredients.
Okay, in another bowl, two whole sticks of butter.
And this is non-salted butter.
Okay, now we're gonna start creaming our butter.
We want this butter real nice and creamed up.
Now we're gonna be adding a cup of sugar,
but we're gonna do half and half of this.
So I'm just, this is a whole cup of confectioner's sugar.
And we're just gonna mix this up
with a whole cup of confectioner's sugar.
But I'm just gonna beat this up really good.
Okay, now I'm gonna pour the rest of my confectioner's sugar.
Don't forget, y'all, this is one whole cup.
One teaspoon of vanilla extract.
We turn it down low.
We're just gonna mix this up.
And then one teaspoon of lemon extract.
We're gonna go ahead and we're gonna beat this up also.
Okay, cut that off.
We're gonna scrape this down
and make sure we get every little thing.
Now that I toasted these pecans,
I'm putting them in a food processor.
And I'm gonna just beat these up.
Now that flour mix, I'm gonna add half of it,
and I'm gonna mix it in here.
And we're gonna hand do it to you guys.
We're not gonna use the blender or the mixer,
or whatever you got.
We're just gonna go ahead and we're gonna mix it in here.
We're gonna mix it like dough.
Okay, then I'm gonna get the rest of it,
making sure you get every little bit,
and I'm gonna hand do it.
Get it nice and smooth like I did last time.
Then I got these pecan nuts.
Okay, this is a rolling technique.
So you need to get in here with your hands.
You need to mix that up.
Okay, I've got my cookie sheet
with my silicone nonstick cookie sheet pan,
or you can put anything on it.
You know I love this so much.
Look how much I have used it.
This is older, but it still works,
and it's not gone out yet.
And I got the smallest scoop that I can get.
It's an ice cream scoop.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go down
and I'm going to measure out some cookies,
and I'm gonna set them like this,
and I'm going to level it out.
And when I cook these cookies,
they're gonna cook just like little ice creams.
Okay, I've got my oven preheated to 350 degrees,
and we're gonna pop these in for about 13 to 16 minutes.
So after 10 minutes, kind of look at them.
So you got another three minutes
or another six minutes to go.
Depends on how fast your oven cooks.
In they go.
Oh, perfect cookies.
Look at those.
Mm, they're delicious.
Okay, I'm gonna lay my cookies in a little bowl here.
Just some of them.
Then I'm gonna get some powdered sugar.
You might can take about a cup of powdered sugar.
And see, I'm gonna, if you want to take a cup,
you know, do a cup, do half and half,
or put partial and partial in there.
And then I'm just gonna sprinkle them over the cookies.
Oh, perfect, beautiful.
And I'm taking it, I'm doing these in a nice,
oh, they're gonna be so beautiful and so delicious.
I'm gonna kind of shake them off a little bit.
I don't want a lot of powdered sugar falling everywhere,
but I do want it on there.
It's nice and pretty, look at that.
And here they are, Be Sure's way of doing wedding cookies.
Let's get one and break it open,
and let's see what it looks like inside.
Look at this.
Oh, nice and moist and wonderful.
Oh, these are so delicious.
This is Mexican wedding cookies.
You don't have to have these just for a wedding.
These are also served at holidays.
Everybody's table, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's,
you have these cookies all the time served
at all those events, including weddings.
So hey, next time you feel like doing something
a little different and out of the ordinary,
do these cookies.
This is my recipe of a wedding cookie,
and I do it differently every time.
Please like, share, and subscribe to my YouTube channel,
because guess what?
I didn't make these cookies alone.
You and me, we did this together,
and we can do plenty more.
So come back next time for another whole episode
of Something Delicious.
See you next time.
Bye.
