Martha Monday: Coconut Balls

One of my favorite cookies is the Russian Tea Cake or the Mexican Wedding Cake.  Whatever you call it, they are buttery shortbread-like cookies filled with pecans and rolled in powdered sugar while still warm.  There is no way to secretly eat this cookie.  Evidence of powdered sugar always ends up on one's face or blouse.

So, I was looking forward to trying these Coconut Balls which are the same cookie, really.  But coconut replaces the pecans.  And . . . while the flavor was good . . . these cookies seemed dry to me.  Instead of a melt-in-your-mouth tenderness, I felt the saliva being sucked out of my mouth.  I'm not sure if it was the coconut or the cookie recipe that did it.  I'd probably  have to play with the recipe to see.  Don't get me wrong.  I still ate them.  All of them.  But I'm not sure I'd make them again.

I think I'll still with my favorite recipe for Mexican Wedding Cakes.