Recipe: Mexican Wedding Cakes (aka Mexican Wedding Drops)

	Title:	Recipe: Mexican Wedding Cakes (aka Mexican Wedding Drops)
	Board:	Copycat Recipe Requests at Recipelink.com
	From:	Ann M. B. Gale, Barbados 12-31-2007
	To:	ISO: Hough Bakery Mexican Tea Cake Cookies
	Msg ID:	1429292

No Hough recipe is available that I know of. It could be small comfort, however, to know that Mexican Wedding Cakes are essentially a generic recipe. They were simply excellent quality shortbread balls rolled confectioners' sugar (not just dusted). Hough's added extremely finely ground pecans to the dough (pulverized, really).

Of Further Interest ~ In Robbie Pile's MENU PLANNING FOR EVERY OCCASION (Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City NY (1968)he mentions in one Mexican menu, dessert of cut up fruit and Mexican Wedding Wafers, (dusted with powdered sugar. No recipe included; and these were available only for catered private dinners, if memory serves.

I tasted them right out of the Hough ovens a time or two, and they were just fine. However (for me, anyway) they did not allow for the marvelous texture-sensation of biting into those deep round balls--and the lovely experience of that sugar melting in my mouth. Those balls? Each one you ate always called for another.

Please try and let me know.

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Replies:

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	7	ISO: hough recipes
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	9	Hough Recipes - wrong information
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