Delicious vanilla wafer cookies can be made home using simple ingredients. For ease of rolling out the dough make sure to chill the dough before baking the cookies.
Ingredients
1/3 cup shortening, can use part butter for extra good flavor
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoons salt
Steps
Cream the shortening, sugar and egg.
Add milk and vanilla.
Beat mixture together.
Sift flour, baking powder and salt into the mixture.
Mix until a cookie dough forms.
Chill dough.
Roll out thin.
Bake at 400 to 425 degrees F (hot oven) until light brown.
The cookies should be thin and crisp when finished baking.
Place on wire baking racks to cool.
Makes 6 dozen small cookies.
Things You’ll Need
Mixer
Measuring cups and measuring spoons
Mixing bowls
Sifter or sieve
Rolling pin
Pastry cloth
Cooling racks
Oven mitts
Article provided by wikiHow, a wiki how-to manual. Please edit this article and find author credits at the original wikiHow article on How to Bake Vanilla Wafers. All content on wikiHow can be shared under a Creative Commons license.
Popularity: 53% [?]