How to make russian tea cakes?

im looking for a recipe for russian tea cakes not cookies it has a rasberry jell filling with rasins and walnuts folded amost like a jellyroll i used to buy them at a bakery until it closed help

Hi,

The recipes I've found don't have the raspberry filling. It may have been a 'special' thing at that bakery.

Yield: 30 Cookies

1 cup Butter
1/2 cup Powdered sugar
Pinch Salt
1 cup toasted pecans, chopped fine
1 tsp Vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups Flour

1/2 cup Powdered sugar, sifted.

Put butter and powdered sugar in a mixer with a paddle attachment, and cream them together until smooth. Add the pinch of salt and vanilla extract and mix.

Slowly add the flour until the dough comes together. Now fold in the toasted pecans mixing well. Let dough chill for 1/2 hour in fridge.

Roll the dough into small balls and place on a parchment lined or sprayed baking sheet. Bake at 350 F until cookies are golden brown about 12 minutes. When done remove from oven and let cool. After the cookies are cool roll them in sifted powdered sugar to completely cover each cookie. Enjoy.

Hi ashay,
The only recipe I found that kind of matched your description and that was a cake and not a cookie was this one, from:http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1718,154161-255205,00.html

RUSSIAN TEA CAKE

6 pkg. of pound cake mix
Red and green food coloring
1 lg. jar raspberry preserves
3 c. granulated sugar
1 1/2 c. water
1 bottle (4 oz.) rum flavoring
1 recipe of white frosting

Prepare one package of pound cake according to package directions. Pour batter into a jelly roll pan that has been greased and lined with greased wax paper. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 30 minutes or until done.
Prepare two more packages of pound cake mix and bake each jelly roll pan in the same manner.

To the fourth mix, add enough red food coloring for a bright red batter. Bake the same as the previous cake. To the fifth cake mix, add green food coloring and bake.

When preparing the sixth pound cake mix, divide the batter in half and make 1 part green and 1 part red. Pour the green batter on 1/2 of the prepared jelly roll pan and the red batter on the other. Bake.

When all cakes have cooled and have been removed from pans, wrap each in aluminum foil and place in freezer.

Meanwhile, make a simple syrup by mixing sugar with water in a medium saucepan. Bring to full boil and boil for 1 minute. Cool.

Working with frozen cakes and a serrated knife, cut one white cake into 1 inch squares. Cut the green cake, the red cake, and the red and green cakes into 1 inch squares also. Place all the squares in a heap in the largest bowl you have!

Mix rum flavoring with 3/4 of the simple syrup. Pour this mixture over the cake squares, turning the squares so everything is moistened.

Remove remaining two cakes from the freezer, they should be the white ones. Sprinkle a clean, dry jelly roll pan with sugar. Place one cake upside down into the pan. Spread with a thin layer of preserves.

Pack the soaked cake squares onto the cake as evenly as possible.

Spread the bottom of the remaining cake with another layer (thin) of preserves. Place this, preserves-side down, on top of the packed squares. Sprinkle sugar on top.

Place a second jelly roll pan on top. Place heavy weights on top of this (a heavy crock or bricks wrapped in a towel) or a 50 pound bag of flour. I find an old crock the handiest to use. Let this stand overnight or for at least 8 hours.

ICING:

1 1/2 c. solid white shortening
1 lb. confectioners' sugar
1 tsp. rum flavoring
2 tbsp. water or more if needed
Red raspberry preserves, as needed

Cream shortening until smooth. Sift in half the sugar. Mix well. Blend rum flavoring and water together. Add to creamed mixture. Sift in remaining sugar and beat until soft and smooth, adding more water, if needed, 1 tablespoon at a time. Add preserves to icing to make a pink color.
Remove weights and top jelly pan from cake. Ice it on top only. Cut 1/2 inch off the edges with a serrated knife. (Dip in hot water for easier cutting.) An that is how to make a Russian Tea Cake.

I hope this helps! By the way, if I happen to find a recipe that matches your description exactly I will be back and post it on here.