Make Your Own Vanilla Wafers
I few weeks ago I decided I wanted to try to make my own vanilla wafers, those tasty little bite sized cookies that are often sold with the shortened name of “Nilla” wafers. I started looking around for homemade vanilla wafer recipes to try and guess what? Something was looking very familiar to me. All the homemade vanilla wafer recipes I was finding were basically the same sugar cookie recipe I’ve been making for the last 20 years – just in a slightly smaller sized recipe!
So I guess I already knew how to make my own vanilla wafers. 🙂
I cut my trusty sugar cookie recipe in half and then made just a few tweaks, including adding extra vanilla to the recipe (hey, these are vanilla wafers after all). I rolled the dough into tiny little balls and laid them on parchment paper lined cookie sheets to bake. And sure enough! The final result was cute little wafer cookies with lots of tasty homemade goodness.
Normally when I make this sugar cookie recipe I make much bigger balls of dough and roll them in sugar too. I opted not to roll my tiny wafer cookie version balls of dough in sugar, but that’s still an option if you want a sweeter cookie.
You may be thinking, why bother to make this tiny version of the cookies? Just make the regular sized sugar cookies like you always do and save yourself some work! Well, that thought did occur to me too as I was making this half-sized, tiny version recipe. But there may be times you want a smaller sized wafer cookie for children or for use in a recipe, and that’s when having this homemade option can come in handy.
Plus it’s just kind of fun to be able to say, “I know how to make my own Vanilla Wafers!”
More homemade cookie recipes:
Homemade Vanilla Wafers
Ingredients:
- 1¼ cup flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 8 tablespoons butter – softened
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt in a small mixing bowl and set aside.
- In a medium size mixing bowl cream together the butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla with an electric mixer.
- Then add the flour mixture and continue mixing until everything is well mixed together.
- Line cookie sheets with parchment paper or silicone mats (this will help keep these small sized cookies from burning).
- Take a small amount of dough and roll it into a ball that's about a 1" size.
- Place the balls of dough on the parchment paper lined cookie sheets
- Bake for 10 minutes or until lightly browned on the bottom. Remove from oven, let cool for a couple minutes, and then move cookies to a piece of paper toweling or wire rack to finish cooling.
This is the best vanilla wafers ever,my family loves them!!! Thanks for your recipe 😊👍