Preheat oven to 160 degrees Celsius and line cupcake tin with cupcake liners.
Place one ore cookie in each liner.
Sift flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
In the bowl of the mixer cream butter and sugar about 5 minutes. Beat in egg whites one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla extract.
With mixer on low speed starting and finishing with flour , add half of the flour mixture followed by milk. Mix until just combined then add the rest of the flour mixture and mix until just combined.
Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full with batter and bake for 20- 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.
Place on a cooling rack and allow to cool in pan for about 10 minutes before removing from the tin and transferring to cooling rack