Mexican Wedding Cake Cookies

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The concert season at Smith-Berry Winery, New Castle, Ky., continues July 9 with Johnny Berry and the Outliers performing classic country, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Dinner is served 6-7 p.m. Menu: pulled pork BBQ, grilled marinated chicken breasts, slow-cooked Roma beans, grilled corn on the cob, assorted cookies and brownies. Veggie burgers on request. Wine sold separately. Bring lawn chairs and blankets.

Dinner and concert will be $21.95 in advance and $26.95 at the door. Call (502) 845-7091 or (888) 845-7091, or go to www.smithberrywinery.com . Wallace Station Deli and Bakery, 3854 Old Frankfort Pike, Midway, Ky., will hold its first dinner concert of the summer July 9. Supper will be served 5-8 p.m., with Jennifer Daniels performing folk-rock and alt-country beginning at 6.

Dinner will be burgers and hot dogs from Stone Cross Farm, portobello burgers, summer vegetables, potato salad, slaw, baked beans, watermelon and fruit cobbler. Beer will be available. Concert and dinner will be $20; children 6-12, $10; children 5 and younger, free. Call after 3 p.m. weekdays, (859) 846-5161. Woodford Reserve Distillery, 7855 McCracken Pike, Versailles, Ky., will offer lunches at the visitor's center overlooking Glenn's Creek.

The lunch of sandwiches, soups, salads and baked goods will be offered Mondays through Sundays, through Oct. 30. Monday through Saturday, lunch will be served 11 a.m.-3 p.m. On Sundays, the hours are 1-3:30 p.m.

No reservations are required. For more information, call Kelly Malin, (859) 879-1963.

July 9 begins a series of Gardenside Suppers at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, 3501 Lexington Road, Harrodsburg, Ky. The three-course meals will be inspired by locally available pastured meats and poultry and produce from the garden and nearby farms.

The suppers will be held on the Trustees' Office lawn, outside the garden gate.

The dinners will begin at 6:30 p.m. with appetizers and a garden tour, with dinner served at 7. $85. Call (800) 734-5611, Ext. 1545, or email info@shakervillageky.org .

COOKING CLASSES Classes at Cooking at the Cottage, 3739 Lexington Road, in the Vogue Center, will be 6:30-9 p.m., unless otherwise noted. Call (502) 893-6700.

• July 9, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. "Beginning Stocks and Mother Sauces." David Moeller of Sullivan University. A partial hands-on class. How to make basic stocks and "mother" sauces. Menu: chicken, veal and shellfish stocks; roux; béchamel, veloute, espagnole and hollandaise sauces; then turn these into smaller sauces: béarnaise, mornay, hunter and supreme sauces. $45.

Mexican Wedding Cake Cookies | Jen's Baking

A short post, but I had to get something posted within a month of my last post! I tried to make these cookies for a party but they just didn’t seem to be turning out correctly, and I was pressed for time. But! Later when I had more time, I just kept sticking these back in the oven and watching them and tasting them, and they were good. You may have had similar cookies around Christmastime, under some Christmas-y name like “Noel Nut Cookies”. They’re nutty, and sorta melty and crumbly, and not too sweet, though the powdered sugar coating will still take care of your sweet tooth. I gave these to my mother, who really liked them, and some to my coworkers, and one said they were just right – and I take her word since she is

I’d say this would yield at least 3 dozen cookies.

Ingredients

1 cup butter 1/2 cup powdered sugar (plus extra powdered sugar for rolling) 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 1/4 cup flour 1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions

Cream together butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla. Slowly mix in salt, flour, and the walnuts. Roll tablespoons of the dough into a ball on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes. (Note: Mine took much longer, so just keep an eye on them in the oven – they should still be light in color (which makes it hard to tell when it’s ready) and the bottoms will be light golden.) Roll cookies in extra powdered sugar while still warm.