Avocado Mexican Wedding Cookies
These look like typical Mexican Wedding Cookies, but once you bite into them, they are a gorgeous green color because they are made with avocados. Avocado Mexican Wedding Cookies will be your new favorite Christmas cookie that you'll be making all year long.
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup Avocado
- 3/4 cup butter
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 3 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups ground walnuts
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- additional powdered sugar to roll warm cookies into
Instructions
- In the bowl of a mixer, mix the avocado and butter until smooth.
- Mix in powdered sugar, flour, salt, walnuts and vanilla.
- Mix until dough is well blended.
- Roll into tablespoon sized balls.
- Bake at 325° for 15 minutes.
- Let cookies cool for a few minutes, but still warm.
- Roll warm cookies in powdered sugar, roll twice or more to get a nice coating of powdered sugar on the cookies, until you do not see any green color.