How to Make Vanilla Wafer Cookies

This is easy, it is cheap, and it is DELICIOUS!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• butter sugar egg vanilla extract all-purpose flour baking powder salt

1. 

   1/2 cup butter (no substitutes)
   1 cup sugar
   1 egg
   1 tablespoon vanilla extract
   1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
   3/4 teaspoon baking powder
   1/4 teaspoon salt

2. 

   Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

3. 

   In a mixing bowl (or your stand mixer), cream butter and sugar together until the mixture is light and fluffy looking.

4. 

   Beat in egg and vanilla

5. 

   Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl and slowly add to creamed mixture and mix well.

6. 

   Pour dough on to wax paper. Roll dough into a log on the wax paper, Roll dough up in the wax paper, than freeze. for 1 hour.

7. 

   When dough hardens it's ready to be cut.
   Cut dough into 1/4 inch circles lay on cookie sheet 1 inch apart

8. Bake at 350 for 12 -15 minutes or until edges are golden brown.
   Cool on a wire rack.

Tips & Warnings

• The dough freezes well; simply roll into a log and wrap in plastic wrap. Freeze. Then slice off cookies and bake
• If you wish to make the cookies chocolate, add 2 tbl baking cocoa.
• Cookies can be used for making your rum balls.

[FrazzledNanny]

on 1/19/2009 My kid's and grandkids love these. Thanks for the recipe. I would much rather make thm than buy them. RRC 5*

[Must-Be-Told]

on 1/14/2009 I love this it is realy good and tast great 'thank you

[sneedc]

on 12/27/2008 GOSH! I have read so many of your recipes, this one just sent me over the edge. I can practically SMELL them cooking.

[Emike]

on 12/27/2008 that looks good!

[HowTo09]

on 12/15/2008 My kids love vanilla wafers and boy are they starting to get pricy. I never saw a recipe for vanilla wafers until now. I will certainly try it out. Thanks for sharing.