Vintage Recipe: Cream Wafer Sandwich Cookies (2024)

FAQs

What are wafer cookies? ›

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.

Bakery or homemade cookies can be stored at room temperature two to three weeks or two months in the refrigerator. Cookies retain their quality when stored in the freezer for eight to 12 months. Moist bars, such as cheesecake and lemon bars, can be refrigerated for seven days.

A sandwich cookie, also known as a sandwich biscuit, is a type of cookie made from two thin cookies or medium cookies with a filling between them. Many types of fillings are used, such as cream, ganache, buttercream, chocolate, cream cheese, jam, peanut butter, lemon curd, or ice cream.

Wafers' origin dates to the 9th century Western Europe where the first waffle tong or waffle iron was discovered. The term wafer was first included in Middle English by 1377. In the 1890s, Josef Manner manufactured the first hazelnut cream-filled wafer sandwich.

Butter, whipping cream and flour are the magic trio that creates dough that bakes into melt-in-your-mouth wafer cookies.

Silicon Wafer cost is usually related to how many chips will be fabricated from a single wafer. Lower volumes mean higher prices per chip.

Dry cookies, like shortbread cookies, gingersnaps, and Danish butter cookies, will stay fresher for longer because they have very little moisture. Dry cookies become stale when they suck up moisture from the air - causing them to become soft and lose their snap.

Cookies can last as long as their creator wants them to. The duration can be set when cookies are created. While session cookies are destroyed when the current browser window is closed, they can also persist for long after the page is closed.

Packaged foods (cereal, pasta, cookies) will be safe past the 'best by' date, although they may eventually become stale or develop an off flavor. You'll know when you open the package if the food has lost quality. Many dates on foods refer to quality, not safety.

Neither a cleaning product nor a Marvel Comics villain, Hydrox biscuits were the original chocolate sandwich cookie, invented by the eponymous company in 1908.

What are the fancy sandwich cookies called? ›

Macarons, which are confusingly sometimes called French macaroons, are delicate sandwich cookies made from meringue and almond flour. They are filled with buttercream, jam, or ganache, and come in a host of flavors and colors.

Hydrox cookies have a sweet filling and a crunchy cookie shell. The Oreo cookie, introduced in 1912, was inspired by the Hydrox. The Oreo eventually became more popular than Hydrox which resulted in Hydrox being thought of as a copy of Oreo.

Nabisco Old Fashioned Chocolate Wafers have been a staple in our homes for generations. They are a key ingredient in scores of desserts. Unfortunately, Nabisco has "removed them from the product line to make room for new innovations." How is there not "room" for this beloved and much used cookie in their product line?

Wafer Origins

According to the ever so trusted wikipedia: "The recipe for vanilla wafers or sugar wafers was first invented in the late 19th century by German confectioner Gustav A. Mayer on Staten Island. He sold his recipe to Nabisco, and Nabisco began to produce the biscuits under the name Vanilla Wafers in 1898.

A type of cookie that can refer to several types of products. The first type has a sweet flavor, is smaller and much thinner than a regular cookie, with a consistent texture that does not change.

OREO Chocolate Sandwich Cookies layer a rich creme filling between the bold taste of two chocolate wafers—making them milk's favorite cookie.

Wafers, unlike other biscuits, are produced from a very fluid batter which is baked between heavy hot plates to produce thin sheets. Wafer offers a unique textural eating experience. The crispness and lightness blend admirably with soft cream or chocolate.

Nilla is a brand name owned by Nabisco, a subsidiary of Illinois-based Mondelēz International, widely associated with its line of vanilla-flavored, wafer-style cookies.

Vanilla wafers are considered a cookie, so they are a sweet snack. However, graham crackers and animal crackers are considered crackers and are not counted as sweet items.