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{Recipe} Pink Lemonade Tea Cakes

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I received several emails requesting the recipe for the Pink Lemonade Tea Cakes that were featured in the Secret Garden Baby Shower that we shared with you on Tuesday. I asked Nicole to share it with us, and of course, she obliged. What a doll! Here you go!

Russian Tea Cakes, Mexican Wedding Cakes, Snowballs–by whatever culture and whatever name you know these cookies, I call them delicious.  They’re a mainstay of our holiday cookie repertoire, but who says they’re just for Christmas?  They’re delicate, delicious, and darn easy to make.

You can’t go wrong with the standard recipe, of course, but for the Secret Garden baby shower, I wanted everything to be pink, so I dreamed up a new version of these classic cookies with a citrus twist.

Pink Lemonade Tea Cakes:
1 cup butter

1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/4 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup finely chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans, typically)
1 tablespoon King Arthur brand Lemon Powder
A few drops of LorAnn Oil flavoring, Lemonade flavor
pink food coloring (if desired)

To Coat the Cookies:
approximately 2 cups extra powdered sugar

1 or 2 tablespoons more King Arthur Lemon Powder
pink petal dust or luster dust

Directions:
1)  Heat oven to 400.

2)  Mix room temperature butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla thoroughly.  Add a few drops of the LorAnn Oil Flavoring.  This is strong stuff, and a little goes a long way!  Stir flour, salt, King Arthur Lemon Juice Powder, and nuts in, and mix just until well incorporated.

3)  Form dough into one inch diameter balls and put on a greased cookie sheet.

4)  Bake 10-12 minutes, until the cookies are just starting to look golden brown on the bottom.  The cookies will still appear pretty pale on their tops.

5)  While still warm, roll the cookies in your pink powdered sugar mixture. I like to use a fork and a spoon for this step, both to keep my hands clean and protect my fingers from the heat.    This first layer might look a little moist and darken as the cookies cool, but don’t worry.  Let cool completely, and roll the cookies in the powdered sugar coating a second time.  This will give you the lovely lasting powdery coating.

To make the pink powdered sugar coating:
1) Place approximately two cups of powdered sugar in a bowl or tupperware container.  (I like something with a lid, so I can shake the ingredients to mix thoroughly and quickly.)  Add one or two tablespoons of King Arthur Lemon Juice Powder to the powdered sugar–it really depends on how lemony you want the cookie to be.  Sprinkle some pink petal dust or luster dust in the mix.  Luster and petal dusts are essentially powdered food coloring, and are used in cake decorating.  You can find it online, or at your local cake decorating store.  A word of warning:  it is *not* the same as the Wilton brand shimmer dust you can get at major craft stores.  Look for the real stuff; it’s much more intense and beautiful.  I used Magenta petal dust in these pictures.  Mix well, and you’ll have a pale pink powdered sugar with a bright lemon tang, perfect for coating the cookies.

Thank you Nicole!

 

If you make these, let us know!

August 25, 2011

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  1. Marcela says:

    They remind me of greek/cypriot Kourambiedes, which are also served at weddings. Except Kourambiedes use rose water and a hint of cinnamon.

  2. I cannot wait to try these…but I’m going to mix it up a bit. I need frosty blue cakes for my son’s upcoming snowy owl dessert table. Thank you so much for sharing this idea with us!

  3. Amy Setzenfand says:

    These will be perfect pink snowballs for my daughter’s Princess Winter “One”derland themed first birthday party in December! I can’t wait to make them (and eat them)!

  4. ioanna betsi says:

    i love cooking!!!!! do you have anything for me?

  5. Holley says:

    I cannot wait to try this recipe! I’m thinking of making them as a gift for my son’s teacher who loves all things pink! That way, I won’t eat them all:-)

  6. Heather G. says:

    Oh my, those look amazing!

  7. that powdered food coloring is so cool!

  8. ALICIA G says:

    Can’t wait to make these beautiful cookies! How many will this recipe make?

  9. Isis says:

    Made these for my daughter’s 3 birthday party…they were a hit! Thanks for sharing…and here are party pics: http://prettypaperparfait.com/2011/09/12/woodland-fairy-themed-birthday-party/

  10. Jackie Strickland says:

    These sound great. Making them for my daughters baby shower. But I would like to know how many this recipe makes? Thanks..

  11. These are so cute. I pinned and have to find a reason to make. Valentines’ day maybe.

  12. lesley says:

    I would like to make these but I have no luster dust or pink petal dust or King Arthur powders available to me. Are there any suggestions for substitutes?

  13. nancy says:

    Can hardly wait to make these for my next teaparty! Can you tell me the name of the font used for the name cards “pink lemonade tea cakes” etc.

  14. Kim says:

    Is there an easy printable version to this recipe??

  15. Kristin says:

    I made this this last weekend for a girl baby shower. They were delicious and so very cute. They were fairly easy to make too.

    I couldn’t find the King Arthur Lemon Powder (my mom works in a kitchen store and says you can usually only find it online). Instead, I substituted 3/4 tsp lemon emulsion (lemon extract would work exactly the same) in the dough and it was a subtle hint of citris. You could use 1 tsp if you want a nice strong lemon flavor. Since the substitution is wet, add it to the butter/powder sugar/vanilla mix before sifting in the flour. I left the lemon flavoring out of the pink powdered sugar on the outside of the cookies.

    The recipe made exactly 40 cookies. I’ve been asked to pass the recipe along to a few of the guests and will definately be making it again for myself.

  16. Ann Knickerbocker says:

    Since I have three organic lemon trees, is there a way I can use, say, powdered dried lemon peel? My mom planted them years ago & I am ALWAYS looking for ways to use them. Not a fruit you find much use for outside of lemonade, which I don’t drink.

  17. Christina says:

    May I ask how much petal dust you use per recipe. I ordered two of the 4g containers but I’m afraid this is not enough for my project. I’m needing to make 320 of these. Please let me know how much dust per recipe.

    Thanks!

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  19. Nancy L says:

    Hi!
    These look lovely! We are hosting a Tea Party Bridal Shower in June and these fit our theme perfectly!
    Can you tell me how many each recipe makes? Would they keep ok 4-5 days in advance in a sealed container?
    Thank you!

  20. Tammy Smith says:

    These are just pretty! Can I make these using a raspberry LorAnn instead of the lemon juice and lemonade LorAnn? I cannot get hold of the pink lemonade in time for the tea party I’m having,but I do have Raspberry.If I could do this,can you tell me what I’d have to do differently? Thank you so very much!

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