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Heather’s Frango mint surprise cookies Tridelt

Russian tea cakes with chocolate mint inside

TimeTwo hours Max including chill time
Yield3 dozen cookies
Recipe of Heather’s Frango mint surprise cookies Tridelt by hlm0903

Ingredients

  • 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
  • 2 cups cake flour
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/8 tsp salt
  • 1 cup finely chopped pecans (4 oz)
  • 18 Frango Mint Chocolates, halved vertically
  • Confectioners’ sugar for rolling

Steps

  1. Cream butter and 1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar at with mixer at medium speed until light in color, about 1 minute.  Hand stir in cake flour, vanilla, salt until well blended.  Stir in pecans.
  2. Loosely cover dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour.
  3. Position racks in center and top of oven.  Preheat oven to 350
  4. Completely enclose each Frango mint half in about 1 level tablespoon of dough.  Roll in your palms to form a ball.
  5. Place cookies 1” apart on ungreased baking sheets.  Bake 18-20 minutes, switching the position of the sheets at about 10 minutes.
  6. Remove the slightly golden cookies from the oven.  Sift (or not) the confectioners’ sugar into a bowl and roll the warm cookies in it.   Cool.  Roll them a second time when they are cool