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NILLA WAFERS
Ingredients
- 115 g (1/2 cup) unsalted butter room temperature
- 150 g (1+1/4 cup) vanilla powdered sugar or normal powdered sugar
- 1+1/2 tsp vanilla paste or vanilla extract; add 1/2 extra tsp of vanilla if you use normal powdered sugar
- 2 eggs room temperature
- 170 g (1+1/3 cup) all purpose flour
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
Instructions
- In a large bowl, place softened butter, vanilla and mix with a hand mixer at medium speed.
- Low the speed, add gradually powdered sugar and mix until pale and fluffy.
- Incorporate one egg one at a time and mix just until smooth and well combined (don't worry if the mix will lumps at the beginning, it will smooth!).
- Sift in flour, salt, baking soda and mix at low speed just until combined: be careful to not overbeat the flour! You can also mix using a spatula to be more gentle.
- If you have a piping bag, you can use it (but it isn't needful!): transfer the dough into a piping bag with a 1 cm-0.4 inch round piping tip and pipe wafers onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. You have to pipe 3 cm-1,2 inch circles, consider that the wafers will spread in the oven so keep them 4 cm-1,5 inch apart.
- If you don't have a piping bag, you can use a teaspoon and spoon the dough onto a lined baking sheet as I show in my recipe video below.
- Bake in preheated fan oven at 150°C-300°F for about 12 minutes. If you don't have a fan oven, you have to bake one sheet at a time and increase the temperature at 170°C-340°F.
- Let the wafers cool in the baking tray.
Video
Notes
Hello, I am Valentina! Welcome to How Tasty!
I am an Italian girl in love with baking and cooking. I’ve been raised in a cooking family, baking since I was a little girl and learning from my mom and my professional chef grandma.
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Tips:
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I’ve used a 1cm piping tip for these Nilla Wafers and I got 3cm diameter cookies. I’ve created a pattern with many 2,5 cm circles, with about 4cm apart from every circle, and printed it. Then I placed it under the parchment paper onto my baking tray and used it as a guide for piping same size cookies…as many people make for Macarons! Consider that these wafers spread while baking so they turn out larger than your pattern.
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If you prefer very crispy wafers, you can leave them in the oven some minutes more and increase a bit the temperature. With my recipe you’ll get crispy cookies outside, but soft inside.
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I always make these Nilla Wafers when I make my Banana Pudding. You can find my Banana Pudding recipe here on my web-sit (Sweet Treat section) or on my YouTube channel…it’s honestly irresistible!
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If you don’t use a piping bag, you can also spoon the batter on the parchment paper. While baking, the wafers will spread and become pretty perfect even if you haven’t use the piping bag! I prefer the piping bag just because it’s faster, but it’s not needful!