Neapolitan wafer
 Neapolitan wafers stacked, showing five layers of wafer and four of hazelnut-chocolate cream | |
| Type | Wafer |
|---|---|
| Place of origin | Austria |
| Created by | Manner (confectionery) |
| Main ingredients | Hazelnuts |
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 the 21st century.[1]
Manner still sell the biscuits in blocks of ten.[1] Many other companies have copied the idea, most often coating the bar in chocolate.
References
- ^ a b c Q&A on the official Manner homepage Archived 2011-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
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