Russian tea cake
russian tea cake kind pastry often eaten around christmas united state russian tea cake relatively simple recipe generally consisting entirely flour water butter ground nut nut variety depending upon cookie type baking rolled powdered sugar still hot coated cookie cooled european recipe rely upon coarsely chopped hazelnut almond walnut mexican wedding cooky traditionally use coarsely chopped pecan reason common name russian tea cake connection russian cuisine unknown speculated recipe either derived eastern european shortbread cooky may migrated mexico european nun may associated cooky served beside russian samovar tea urn th century part wedding christmas easter tradition u known popular russian tea cake mexican wedding cookie name list american dessert list russian dessert