Toasted Walnut Cookies "Mexican Wedding / Butterballs / Snowballs / Russian Tea Cake Cookie" - 9" Tray

Over 3 dozen of these toasted walnut cookies fill this tray to the rim. This cookie is what we call a Butterball, covered in confectioner's sugar (powdered). More popular names include Mexican Wedding Cookies (the name seems to have emerged in the U.S. in the 1950s), Snowballs, and Russian Tea Cake cookies (appeared in Russia in the 18th century, used in tea sharing gatherings).

Also available in a Box, shown in the bottom picture.

Quality Ingredients
Our cookies are homemade from scratch in small batches, just like our Grandparents did!  We use ingredients you can pronounce - eggs, flour, sugar, and of course... butter! What you would consider real food.  No artificial ingredients, fillers, additives, or preservatives. Great baked goods start with the best ingredients, and there is no substitute for the flavor of real butter!

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Save with our Large Quantity Pricing! Great for weddings, graduation, special events.
Assorted Trays are also available.

"Wedding Cookie" Selection
Clothespins - (lady locks, fingers, cream horns)- filled with a sweet butter cream filling, covered in powdered sugar, and melt in your mouth.
Pecan Tarts - (tassies, caramel cups) - filled with caramel and topped with crushed pecans.
Toasted Walnut - (mexican wedding cookies, butterballs, snowballs, russian tea cake cookie) - this is a butterball cookie with toasted walnuts inside and covered in confectioner's "powdered" sugar.
Kolachi Cookies - made with a cream cheese dough.  All favors are awesome and include walnut, apricot, raspberry, & sweet cream cheese.
Italian Nut Horns
Iced Sugar Cookies - available in many shapes and colors
Chocolate Chip - everyone's favorite!
M&M Chocolate Chip
Peanut Butter
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip - our staff favorite!
Oatmeal
Raisin Oatmeal
Oatmeal Butterscotch
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip w/ Nuts
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip w/ Nuts & Raisins

The Wedding Cookie Table
   Is it Youngstown, Ohio or Pittsburgh, PA where the cookie table at wedding receptions originated? We don't think anyone knows for sure. What we do know is they usually only appear in Northeastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. For those of you who have no idea what we're talking about, imagine a wedding where there is an entire table (or more) of just cookies! It is not unheard of for there to be over 20 cookies per person attending. Questions from the reception hall staff include "Where will the cookie table go?" right before "Where will they cut the cake?"
   Credit for "The Cookie Table" is said to go to Italian and Eastern European immigrants who settled in this region. Another theory is that it started during the depression, when flashy wedding cakes were not as common. To reduce the burden and cost for just one family - mothers, grandmas,  aunts, and relatives go to work in the kitchen, baking and freezing cookies until the big day. So, why so many cookies? The tradition is not to try and eat 20+ cookies at the reception (although it sounds like a good time), but to send everyone home with a box of cookies. You bring cookies, eat them, and take some home... that is the tradition.
   Cookie tables in our region don't stop at weddings. They have made their way to graduations as well. And we can't remember a Christmas without all of these cookies. Any reason to gather with family and friends, and these cookies usually appear.
   Many have grown up in this region and moved away, and their tradition is hard to fulfill. Or for those of you who don't want 80 year old Grandma trying to make a 100 dozen cookies, that's where Butter Maid Bakery can help!

Wedding Cookie Origin
There are many names, spellings, & variations for what we call "Wedding Cookies". There's a good chance you were looking for one of them. Depending on origin, you may have heard them called traditional / home style / homestyle / homemade / home made / old fashioned / old fashion / holiday / easter / christmas / xmas / new years / weddings / wedding kolachi cookies / mini nut horns / italian nut horn / viennese almond crescent cookies / kiffles / roll / rolls / bread / overnight cakes / kolachy / kolachky / kolache / strudel / beigli / potica / poticas / gubana / orechovnik / makowiec / povitica / poviticas / gibanica / orahnjača / orahnjaca / guban'ca filled with walnut, nut, hazelnuts, almonds, date, cherry, prune, poppy seed, poppyseed, raisin, raisen, apricot, strawberry, raspberry, rasberry, lekvar, coffee, chocolate, carob, cinnamon, currants, lemon zest, vanilla, rum, heavy cream, sour cream, honey, sweet cream cheese, pineapple, pinnapple, coconut cream, pina colada, mint, curd, cracklings, dried fruit. Clothespins are also called ladyfingers, lady fingers, ladylocks, lady locks, clothes pins, pin, & mini cream horns. Pecan Tarts are also called pecan tassies, caramel cups, butter cups, and the misspelled peacan tarts. Toasted walnut cookies are most commonly known as mexican wedding cookies (the name seems to have emerged in the U.S. in the 1950s), butterballs / butter balls ball, snowballs / snow ball, and Russian tea cakes (appeared in Russia in the 18th century, used in tea sharing gatherings). Lesser common names / origins are spanish / spain / latin america american / philippines / persia / andalusia / cashew polvoron polvorones, pan de polvo made with anise, mantecadoscebuano, polboron, tagalog, pulburon, ghurayba / ghorabiye / qurabiyə azerbaijani / arabic / turkish kurabiye / greek kavala nea karvali kourabiedes or kourabiethes / iranian azeri biscuit from the city of tabriz.