And it’s back to work, but thank goodness it’s only a 3 day work week, woohoo! If you saw my last post, you’ll notice that we had a WHITE CHRISTMAS! For those of you who didn’t have a White Christmas and would like some resemblance of “white snow” in your life, I thought I’d share a recipe from my mother-in-law’s stash, it’s one that I shared with a few bloggers in the Pizelles and All Things Ami “Winter Recipe Exchange“! I bring to you the delectable (and so simple to make)…
Pecan Balls
(also known as Russian Tea Cakes)
Ingredients:
– 1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
– 1/4 cup powdered sugar
– 1 cup chopped pecans
– 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
– 1 cup flour
Directions:
1) Cream together butter and 1/ cup powdered sugar.
2) Add pecans, vanilla and flour. Mix well.
3) Shape dough into 1-inch balls and place on a baking sheet.
4) Bake in a 400 F degree preheated oven for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.
5) Roll warm balls in remaining powdered sugar to coat all over. Allow balls to cool and enjoy!
Linking up this one to Sweet Shot Tuesdays because looking at it makes me want to bake more!
Did you have a White Christmas?
My mom calls these Russian Tea Cakes 😛 I swear I ate so many of these during the holidays!
That looks delicious! I want to try to make these now! 🙂
Those look delicious! I think I need to bake some too! And I love your depth of field!
Mmmmm – liking the look of this recipe! Great photographs too!
ooh yummy! totally going to have to try them!
My MIL grew up with these; she calls them russian balls. i always make them for her, and everyone loves them.
You make these look so easy to make. Mmmm, christmas baking!
These look so yummy but I can’t eat nuts! Recipes like this make me sad! Be sure to eat an extra one for me.
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Oh yummy! I am seriously craving those now!
Oh man, just when I was thinking I would never crave anything sweet ever again, you had to go and post these! haha thanks a lot! 🙂
I love these! We had a VERY white Christmas here in France – it was beautiful 🙂
Well, Christmas wasn’t white but the day after was! Yesterday we were snowed in and today I don’t think we’ll be going anywhere too fast. Maybe, in fact, I’ll spend my morning making these. Just because they look delicious and I can.
Oh my, one of my ALL time favorites. Great capture.
I can taste them now!!
A favorite go-to recipe for me. You made them look even more fabulously delicious. That is a sweet shot!
Hee hee – I’m one of the lucky recipients of your recipe! Can’t wait to make these – you made them look so yummy!!!
These are one of my all-time faves!
these looks SO good and easy to make! thanks for sharing your recipe 🙂 xoxo jcd
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They look tasty and pretty!! Yum!
omg these look so good!
YUM! Send some my way!
Those look tasty! My mom makes those every year 🙂
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Russian tea cakes?!?
HOW cute!!!! Im going to bookmark this page!!!
It looks DELICIOUS!!!
xoxo
Mmh..they look delicious!!!
These look amazing! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas xo
These look great!!!! Bookmarking your recipe to try 🙂
Love this recipe! So glad you sent it to me! I made some this year with hazelnuts instead of pecans and girl they were delicious!!! Try some next year!
*kate
Ah a white Christmas! That’s all I asked for! Lol we usually get slammed with snow storms in Colorado but it was 60 degrees here o_o…
so yummy! thanks for the recipe 🙂
These are one of my favs! I need to make these! Loving your blog by the way! Following you dear! xo
Mmm… Yummy! My sister made our family some Walnut Balls a few days ago. They were so delish. 🙂
Oh! I was just looking for a recipe for these a week ago – never got around to making anything! I’m using yours! Thanks!
Sandy!!! No white Christmas here… 🙁 Just green and rainy.. 🙂 Hope you had a fabulous one! And the pecan balls look so yummy.. i also like that they’re called “pecan balls”. lol… ha ha.
Hope your day is going wonderfully my dear!
xx Love & Aloha
our christmas was gloriously white. these look DIVINE!!
xo Alison
these look amazing! a great recipe for me to try with my little elf 🙂 – thx for sharing and for coming by my blog!
YUM! These look easy to make! Thanks for sharing 😀
Mo Mom used to make these, they look great:)
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ohhh, my momma used to make this. Thanks for sharing – brought a great memory and SMELL back to me.
Can you believe that we did have a white Alabama Christmas! I was super excited about it!! 🙂
These little sweets look so very delicious! I can’t wait to try out the recipe!! Thanks for sharing!
seriously?! what are you doing to me? those look amazing but i can’t make them. ahhh. i will have to write the recipe down though for next year. sheeesh you!! 🙂 hope you had a great christmas!!
Yummy these look delish!!! I had a very white day AFTER Christmas. We got 20 inches here! 🙂
oehh, this looks nice =D would love to try it out
i am SO going to make these! : ) thanks for joinging the exchange. so glad to have blog met you this year. definitely one of my highlights for twenty ten. happy twenty eleven to you!
eeek! your blog is SO CUTE.
i literally JUST ate one of these about five minutes ago… they’re so delicious. 🙂
We didn’t get a white Christmas 🙁 . . . and I even drove all the way to Utah in search of one. However, those cookies look super tasty!
MMMMM….. those look delicious!!! I’ll have to try them for a party we’re heading to this week 🙂 fun pics too!