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A wafer is a crisp, often sweet, very thin, flat, light and dry cookie, often used to decorate ice cream, and also used as a garnish on some sweet dishes. A communion wafer is a type of unleavened bread consumed after transubstantiation as part of the Christian ritual of communion. Polish Christmas wafers, depicting Christian scenes. Christmas wafers are made of only wheat flour and water. The pink wafer is a wafer-based confectionery originally made by Edinburgh’s Crawford’s Biscuits in the United Kingdom.
It is now made by United Biscuits, the company that took over the firm in 1960, still using the Crawford’s name. There is a similar product branded Pink Panther wafers. Not to be confused with Fresca. Freska is an Egyptian wafer sold only on beaches in the summertime. It is made from two thin circular wafers filled with a thin layer of honey syrup.