Neapolitan wafer

Neapolitan wafers

Neapolitan wafers are a wafer and chocolate-cream sandwich biscuit, first made by Austrian company Manner in 1898.^[1]

Using Hazelnuts imported from Naples, Italy, to make the hazelnut-flavoured chocolate cream filling, they have five wafers and four layers of cream in their 49 millimetres (1.9 in) x 17 millimetres (0.67 in) x 17 millimetres (0.67 in) biscuit size. The basic recipe has remained unchanged to this day.^[1]

Manner still sell the biscuits in blocks of ten,^[1] although now many other companies have copied the idea, most often coating the bar in chocolate.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Q&A on the official Manner homepage