You only need 5 ingredients to make delicious, buttery Mexican Wedding Cookies

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Whether you call them Mexican Wedding Cookies, Russian Teacakes, Snowballs or Butterballs, these easy-to-make cookies are a delicious, welcome dish to include around the holidays. They come together very quickly and are made with pantry staples.

Mexican Wedding Cookies have a delicate, melt-in-your-mouth buttery flavor and are dotted with ground bits of pecan. They are topped with a generous helping of confectioners’ sugar.

A batch of Mexican Wedding Cookies is perfect for filling in the gaps on a holiday cookie tray. Once finished with their sugar coating, they look like a small arsenal of snowballs at the ready.

Make Mexican Wedding Cookies a new staple for your holiday cookie baking with this easy recipe, perfect for getting kids into the kitchen to help you. They might have more fun shaping the dough into balls or rolling them in powdered sugar.

Preparation is simple, and the recipe doesn’t call for special equipment. Just use a stand mixer or hand mixer to cream the butter and sugar together as the oven preheats, bake on a cookie sheet, and cool on a wire rack.