Tasty Tuesday!! (on Wednesday)

Just wanted to apologize for the late post. I stayed up way too late making these, and just did not have the energy to make an update.

Austrian Tea Cakes

The ones on the top are the tea cakes!

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup whole-wheat flour
  
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups ground hazelnuts or almonds (easily chopped in a regular blender!)
  
• powdered sugar for dusting

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, 1/4 cup powdered sugar, and vanilla until smooth and light. Add the flour, salt, and ground hazelnuts; stir together until well combined.
   
3. Chill dough for 1 hour, then drop onto greased cookie sheets in rounded teaspoons. Or, I made little wheels. Note - they will not get larger when baked, so you can pack them in pretty tightly on the cookie sheet!
   
4. Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes. Allow to cool for 10 minutes, then roll in powdered sugar. The sugar will look like it's gotten wet and create a delicious sugar coat on the cookies.
   
5. Cool completely on a wire rack, then roll in powdered sugar once again.