Crisp Brown Sugar Wafers

Name: Crisp Brown Sugar Wafers
Yield: Makes about 40 biscuits
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda; 295 g plain flour; 1 medium egg yolk; 2-3 baking sheets or swiss roll tins lined with baking paper or foil; ¼ teaspoon salt; 1 medium egg; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 340 g light brown sugar; 170 g unsalted butter, softened

Preparation info

Makes about
40
biscuits

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Bake!

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2010

About

All good biscuits are addictive, but these are particularly dangerous.

As if their shatteringly crisp texture weren’t enough, their buttery flavour is accentuated and deepened by brown sugar. Unlike most cut out biscuits, these spread quite a bit while they’re baking.

Ingredients

295 g plain flour
½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
¼ teaspoon

Vegetarian
Cookies

Method

Stir the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt together and set aside.
Beat the butter, brown sugar and vanilla with the paddle attachment of an electric mixer on medium speed until well mixed, about 1 minute. Beat in the egg and yolk one at a time, beating smooth between additions. Scrape the bowl and beater and beat again for 30 seconds.
Stop the mixe