Crisp Brown Sugar Wafers

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Preparation info
  • Makes about

    40

    biscuits
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Bake!: Essential Techniques for Perfect Baking

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

Method

  1. Stir the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt together and set aside.
  2. 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.
  3. Stop the mixe