Forming Balls for Russian Tea Cakes

Video Transcript

"I'm Stephanie Barnett and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to show you what to bring to your next office Christmas party, something savory and something sweet. So now we're going to roll out the balls to put in the oven. It will take you a little while to get used to this process but once you do you'll get going and it will be lickity split. I like to use a cookie sheet with a silpat liner or any other kind of non stick baking liner. Now the cookie dough is going to be very hard so you're going to think oh, I'm never going to get this out. But you just take little pieces of this hard dough and you squinch it in your hands and you roll it into like a ball shape. So there's one. So again, it's going to be really hard and you're going to think this is too hard to do but it does work. The heat of your hand warms up the dough just enough and you've got to really push on the dough and squeeze it hard to compact it. If you have a young, angry child in your household, this is a perfect activity for them. They can get out all that anger by squeezing the dough. You tell them come squeeze the dough with mommy. Or if you have an elderly person who has nothing to do, this is a good activity for them. So it's going to take you a while and just push down hard with your spoon to release the dough and roll it. So once you have these rolled out, we'll put them in the oven. So leave some space, put about twelve on a sheet and then get those into the hot oven. And set your timer for about ten minutes but again, when you smell them cooking, check on them so they don't burn. You want these just white or just lightly golden brown."