"Powdered sugar-coated wedding cookies, named for their appearances at marriage gatherings around the world, are a welcome addition to any celebration. They also make fantastic gifts, whether for holiday cookie boxes or a Valentine's Day show of homemade love. Sometimes they go by other names - polvorones, pastelitas de boda - and have many sweet cousins. Italian wedding cookies, for instance, are often made with almonds."
"With walnuts or pecans, they might be called Russian tea cakes or snowballs. Ellen Ramos, who is the talented baker behind Highland Park's popular Santa Canela, likes to use pecans for her Mexican wedding cookies and then she adds a pumpkin spice curveball that give her cookies a comforting finish. You can use any pumpkin spice blend from your favorite market, but Ramos also shared the recipe to her special spice mix."
Powdered sugar-coated wedding cookies appear at marriage gatherings worldwide and make popular gifts for holidays and Valentine's Day. They go by names such as polvorones and pastelitas de boda and have sweet relatives like Italian almond wedding cookies and Russian tea cakes or snowballs when made with walnuts or pecans. A Highland Park baker favors pecans for Mexican-style wedding cookies and adds a pumpkin spice twist for a comforting finish. The pumpkin spice blend can include cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, allspice, black pepper, ginger and burnt corn husk powder, which adds a subtly smoky note and reuses tamale husks.
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