Homemade Vanilla Wafers (Sugar Free)

Now that it's back to school I'm once again on the lookout for healthy snack foods for after school and school lunches. I ran into this recipe a while back and it's been on my "to-try list" for a while. I finally decided to make it today and boy I'm glad I did. This is a wonderful, love-at-first bite type recipe.

I shouldn't even compare these to the vanilla wafer cookies that you buy in a box at the store because really there's no comparison. It's like comparing store bought rolls with homemade fresh from the oven rolls. These wafer cookies have a sweet, buttery vanilla flavor that resonates with my soul. The fact that they're whole-grain and sugar-free makes me happy to eat them and happy to share them with my family. And of course happy to share the recipe with you, my fabulous readers. I'm quite certain if there was a sugar-free snack heaven, these bite-size, crispy vanilla wafers would be there.

Homemade Vanilla Wafers (Sugar-Free)
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*Makes 12-13 dozen wafers

INGREDIENTS:
1/2 Cup butter
1/2 Cup raw honey
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1-1/4 Cup wonder flour
1/4 tsp. sea salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder

DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 325 F. In a medium mixing bowl cream butter and honey together until smooth. Add egg and vanilla and mix well until combined. Add wonder flour, sea salt, and baking powder and mix until smooth. Spoon mixture into a zip-lock sandwich bag and zip the top. Cut off a tiny bit of the corner and pipe the dough onto a parchment lined baking sheet in nickel sized blobs about 1/2" apart. Bake for 8 minutes at 325 F. Then turn off oven and let sit in oven for another 5-10 minutes until wafers begin to turn golden brown. Be sure to watch carefully so they don't burn. Remove from oven and let cool until crispy and then remove from pans to cool completely. Repeat with remaining dough, reusing the parchment paper. Cool completely and then store in an airtight container. They should fresh for a couple of weeks, but I doubt if they'll last that long.

Recipe Source: Adapted from a recipe at Heavenly Homemakers

The easiest way that I've found to make these is to fill up a zip lock bag with the dough. I like to put the bag in a glass so that it doesn't collapse as I'm filling it up.

Zip up the bag and then clip off a tiny corner of the bag to make an opening to pipe the dough out.

Squeeze the bag to pipe the dough into blobs. They don't have to look nice because the heat will melt them into pretty circles.

Here's all my nice dough blobs.

You can see what happens when you put them in the oven.

Now comes the best part: dig in!