Gluten-free Vanilla Wafers

Submitted by Jill Johnston

"This is a great gluten-free recipe that can be used for any recipe that calls for vanilla wafers, like rum balls. It is a modified version of a recipe by Bette Hagman."

 

• Ready In: 20mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 36

ingredients

• 236.59 ml rice flour
• 59.14 ml soy flour
• 118.29 ml cornstarch
• 2.46 ml salt
• 4.92 ml baking powder
• 9.85 ml vanilla
• 118.29 ml margarine or 118.29 ml butter
• 118.29 ml sugar, plus
• 14.79 ml sugar
• 1 egg

directions

1. Mix the first 5 ingredients together in a small bowl.
2. Cream together the margarine, sugar, egg and vanilla.
3. Mix til it looks like pastry dough.
4. Add water if necessary.
5. Shape into 1 inch balls and place 3 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
6. Flatten with a moistened fork to 1/8 inch thick.
7. Bake at 375ºF for 6 to 10 min or until slightly browned.
8. Makes about 3 dozen cookies.

Reviews

[Deb in TX]

Great little cookie! My pregnant daughter who can't eat gluten or sugar (or dairy!) is craving banana pudding, so this is the first stage in creating a gluten-free, non-dairy, non-sugar, no artificial sweeteners banana pudding for her. I used coconut flour in place of soy flour, and 1/2 cup agave nectar + 1/4 cup honey in place of the sugar. Increased vanilla to 1 tablespoon and added 1/8 tsp lemon extract. Yumm...

 

[Sadieveggirl]

These cookies were excellent though I would call them a sugar cookie rather than vanilla wafer. I baked for 10 minutes. They stayed soft for the two days they were around. I tried with margarine and butter. It was great both ways, but much easier to work with when I used butter. My first gluten-free baking experience and I have made them twice since even though I am able to eat gluten. They were that good and seem simpler than other GF recipes since they only include two flours. I changed the second batch by substituting almond and hazelnut extracts for the second t of vanilla and adding 1/2 chopped almonds. Tastes like the ones in Chinese restaurants.

 

[lisann09]

This is a really easy recipe to do. I really enjoyed making and eating these. They were nice and soft and even stayed soft on the counter over night. I think the best thing about them for me was them reminding me of my grandma's sugar cookies. i'll be making these again.

 

[pooterbug]

Thanks for sharing this recipe. So easy to make and quite tasty. The one thing which I did change, was I subbed in vanilla sugar for the normal sugar. That upped the vanilla flavor considerably. :)

 

[GFMona]

Thank you for sharing this wonderful recipe! If I could rate it higher than 5 stars I would! These were so simple to make and turned out perfectly - my quest for the perfect vanilla cookie is over! Even ny non gluten eating son and husband loved it and it was all gone in 5 minutes! I used Pamelas baking mix instead of soy flour and MELT organic butter instead of butter.they were soft and reminded me of bakery vanilla cookies .Thanks again!