Homemade Nilla Wafers

Homemade Nilla wafers?? These don't have the dry crumbly texture of the Nilla wafers, but these are great buttery bite sized cookies that I used in banana pudding! These were eaten too fast to take a picture.

The outside is a crispy cookie/carmel/buttery cookie and the inside is sweet and soft.

The recipe is from Serious Eats.

Vanilla Wafers

makes about 100 1 inch cookies

Ingredients

1 stick unsalted butter, softened

¼ teaspoon salt

1 cup sugar

1 large egg white

1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract

1 tablespoon milk

1 1/3 cups AP flour

3/4 teaspoon baking powder

Cream butter, salt, sugar and vanilla. Beat in egg and milk until well incorporated.

Whisk together flour and baking powder and add to butter mixture. Mix until just combined.

Use a cookie scoop to create the same sized cookies. This made 3 cookie sheets of cookies, they spread a little but not too much so you can put many cookies (I did 5 x 6 cookies per sheet).

Bake at 350°F for about 15-20 minutes, until cookies are lightly browned. Cool completely before storing.