wafer
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A wafer is a crisp, often sweet, very thin, flat, light biscuit, often used to decorate ice cream, and also used as a garnish on some sweet dishes. They frequently have a waffle surface pattern but may also be patterned with insignia of the food's manufacturer or may be patternless. Some chocolate bars, such as Kit Kat and Toffee Crisp, are wafers with chocolate in and around them.
Key facts
- Prepared food.name
- Wafer
- Prepared food.image
- File:Akbar Mashti.JPG
- Prepared food.caption
- Traditional Iranian ice cream sandwiches prepared with wafers
- Prepared food.type
- Cookie
via Wikipedia infobox
Nutrition · Open Food Facts
Typical values per 100 g · averaged across 863 products
- Energy
- 483 kcal
- Fat
- 23.4 g
- — of which saturates
- 13 g
- Carbohydrates
- 63.3 g
- — of which sugars
- 34.1 g
- Fibre
- 2.1 g
- Protein
- 5.2 g
- Salt
- 0.47 g
via Open Food Facts · ODbL
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- biscuit
- Image
- Ice Cream dessert 02.jpg
- Has use
- ice cream cone
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- Commons category
- Wafers (snack)
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- hashtag
- wafer
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Communion wafers
- Spa wafer
- Christmas wafer
- ''Oblea''
- Pink wafer
- ''Freska''
- Variations
- Flavours
- Shapes
- See also
- References
- External links
A wafer is a crisp, often sweet, very thin, flat, light biscuit, often used to decorate ice cream, and also used as a garnish on some sweet dishes. They frequently have a waffle surface pattern but may also be patterned with insignia of the food's manufacturer or may be patternless. Some chocolate bars, such as Kit Kat and Toffee Crisp, are wafers with chocolate in and around them.
==Communion wafers==
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