Place the cookies about 2 inches apart on a parchment-lined cookie sheet. Bake until set but not browned, 8 to 10 minutes.

You may know these cookies as butterballs, snowballs, Mexican wedding cakes. They are all similar in how they look but each one is a slightly different recipe.

The cookies are a variation on a Mexican wedding cookie and Russian tea cakes recipe. They’re basically barely sweet nut balls rolled in powdered sugar. When I was a kid, we knew them as ...

Use a fork to seal the edges completely. Bake: Place the cookies about 2 inches apart on a parchment-lined cookie sheet. Bake until set but not browned, 8 to 10 minutes.

Russian tea biscuits have even traveled as far as California and Florida. Clevelanders started Bea’s Bakery in Los Angeles and 3G’s Deli in Delray Beach, Florida, bringing their recipes with them.