Homemade Vanilla Wafers
This traditional sugar cookie recipe can be made into mini size cookies that will look and taste like the familiar Vanilla Wafer cookies.
Yield: 48 cookies
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.