Cream Wafer Cookies
CATEGORIES
INGREDIENTS
  • Cooking Time: 10 minutes per batch
  • Servings: 3 dozen
  • Preparation Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
  • WAFER Cookie Dough
  • 1 cup Butter or margarine, softened
  • 1/2 cup Whipping cream
  • 2 cups Flour
  • FILLING
  • 1/4 cup Butter
  • 3/4 cup Confectioner's sugar
  • 1 Egg yolk
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla
  • Red or green food coloring (thats for the holiday, use whatever you want)
DIRECTIONS
  1. Combine wafer ingredients and chill 1 hour.
  2. Roll out on floured surface to 1/2" thickness.
  3. Cut in small rounds.
  4. Transfer to waxed paper covered with 1 cup sugar.
  5. Thoroughly coat both sides and place on cookie sheet.
  6. Prick with fork and bake at 350 deagrees for 7-10 minutes.
  7. Cool. (Careful they are crumbly now)
  8. Combine filling ingredients.
  9. Spread filling on wafers and sandwich two wafers together.
RECIPE BACKSTORY
My mom has been making these for Christmas since I was.... I don't know... maybe even before I was!!! Haven't gone a holiday without... I crave them throughout the year though... so this is a heavily used cookie recipe in this family. (Shhh... don't tell my mom!)