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Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate [Vitamin B1], Riboflavin [Vitamin B2], Folic Acid), Sugar, Vegetable Shortening (Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil and/or Cottonseed Oil), Cocoa (Processed With Alkali), High Fructose Corn Syrup, Coconut Preserved With Sulfur Dioxide, Chocolate, Whey, Baking Soda, Salt, Eggs, Soy Lecithin (Emulsifier), Dextrose, Artificial Flavor.
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Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate [Vitamin B1], Riboflavin [Vitamin B2], Folic Acid), Sugar, Vegetable Shortening (Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil and/or Cottonseed Oil), Cocoa (Processed With Alkali), High Fructose Corn Syrup, Coconut Preserved With Sulfur Dioxide, Chocolate, Whey, Baking Soda, Salt, Eggs, Soy Lecithin (Emulsifier), Dextrose, Artificial Flavor.
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Product Description
Famous Chocolate Wafers is made from enriched wheat flour, cocoa, coconut, and chocolate. It is crispy and mildly sweet and could be tried for chocolate crumb crusts and other recipes. This is also low in cholesterol and saturated fat.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By MoCheekster
I have fond memories of making a cream cake with my grandmother using these wafers. Simply stack them in a row, putting creme between each cookie and covering the finished row of cookies with cream, so that it looks like a huge cream log. Make sure they are stacked sideways ///// like this, so that when you cut the cake it has a beautiful design in the middle. Cool the cake in the fridge for several hours, then cut and eat. Very delicious, simple, and light!
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By Pachamama
Amazon Verified Purchase
The refrigerator cake made with these wafers, which my mother called "Famous Dessert" when she made it at the end of the 1930's, is what my kids renamed "Favorite Dessert" and it's now that for the grandkids too. The delicate wafers themselves are dry and crisp. Their taste seems nothing too special if you eat them straight -- but being layered and covered with whipped cream and a few hours in the refrigerator brings about an easy transformation into a luscious and intense chocolate experience. There is no refrigerator dessert close to it.
But today's packaging is less protective of these wafers than were the long metal cylinders with screw tops that protected those of my childhood memories. I often need to sort through the boxes on groceries shelves to find ones with no more than one or two broken wafers. So I welcomed a chance to buy a carton. Closely packed and sent straight to me, I told myself, they would arrive intact, and I'd have a supply for many impromptu dinner parties.
WRONG. The unexpectedly large carton that arrived today proved to be part of a naive attempt at the double-boxing often used to ship fragile things. Unfortunately, Amazon's packer didn't really understand the concept. The only cushioning included in the ample spaces between that large carton and the inner one with the wafers was one strip of 4 plastic pouches partly filled with air. The inner box seemed to have been bouncing around a lot during transport, by the glimpses of the number of broken wafers in the boxes inside. I braced myself to go to the trouble of sending the order back -- I can find less damaged ones (at a lower price) on local shelves.
And guess what? After filling out a feedback report on the packaging problem, I went to arrange a return -- and was told that the product in that order was not returnable. No reason given, and no warning on the listing either.
Now I can understand that Amazon has no use for 12 boxes of damaged wafers. But you know something? Neither do I.
Yes, I hope Nabisco continues to be carry them forever. But I'll get mine locally from now on, and suggest that you might be wise to do so too. You can grate one broken wafer over the top and add an extra bit of that wonderful chocolate taste as well as a nice contrast to the white of whipped cream. But one is all it takes, not half a dozen or more.
But today's packaging is less protective of these wafers than were the long metal cylinders with screw tops that protected those of my childhood memories. I often need to sort through the boxes on groceries shelves to find ones with no more than one or two broken wafers. So I welcomed a chance to buy a carton. Closely packed and sent straight to me, I told myself, they would arrive intact, and I'd have a supply for many impromptu dinner parties.
WRONG. The unexpectedly large carton that arrived today proved to be part of a naive attempt at the double-boxing often used to ship fragile things. Unfortunately, Amazon's packer didn't really understand the concept. The only cushioning included in the ample spaces between that large carton and the inner one with the wafers was one strip of 4 plastic pouches partly filled with air. The inner box seemed to have been bouncing around a lot during transport, by the glimpses of the number of broken wafers in the boxes inside. I braced myself to go to the trouble of sending the order back -- I can find less damaged ones (at a lower price) on local shelves.
And guess what? After filling out a feedback report on the packaging problem, I went to arrange a return -- and was told that the product in that order was not returnable. No reason given, and no warning on the listing either.
Now I can understand that Amazon has no use for 12 boxes of damaged wafers. But you know something? Neither do I.
Yes, I hope Nabisco continues to be carry them forever. But I'll get mine locally from now on, and suggest that you might be wise to do so too. You can grate one broken wafer over the top and add an extra bit of that wonderful chocolate taste as well as a nice contrast to the white of whipped cream. But one is all it takes, not half a dozen or more.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By C. Braun
Very pleased with the hard to find wafers - arrived quickly and very well packed - not a broken one in any of the boxes!!! My family loved the desserts made with them over the holidays and I was completely satisfied with the transaction.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
$7.79 per box,,, hardly worth it???
My mother likes these little chocolate wafers for a desert that she makes, so I and others are always on the lookout for them on sale. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jeffrey N. Thomas
5.0 out of 5 stars
I love these cookies!
I am 40 but remember eating these as a little girl. I found them at Safeway by the ice cream. You might want to buy them there if you don't want a large quantity.
Published 15 months ago by Debbie
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Family Favorite Baking Essential you should always have on hand!...
These old-fashioned chocolate wafer cookies are the key ingredient in many recipes. Even Martha Stewart uses them on her show as the bottom of her Ice-cream Bon-Bons. Read more
Published 15 months ago by DAVERAT
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cookies from the past
These cookies bring back many happy memories. My mom used to make the whipped cream dessert on the side. My aunt used to keep the cookies in her kitchen drawer for a snack. Read more
Published 15 months ago by TKDLisa
5.0 out of 5 stars
Yummy chocolate wafer cookies
Been using these cookies for our special Thanksgiving and Christmas desserts for as many years as I have been alive. Read more
Published 17 months ago by B. Hoover
5.0 out of 5 stars
Heaven in a box!
After searching fruitlessly in the grocery stores in my area for these cookies that were the base for a favorite dessert when I was young (the recipe is STILL on the box decades... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Martha Dillon
5.0 out of 5 stars
best chocolate cookies EVER
I had forgotten how good these cookies really were - AWESOME - just sweet enough - very cocolatey - wow - just great !
Published 22 months ago by Ed Meador
4.0 out of 5 stars
hard to find
A very hard to find item in my part of the country. My order arrived fresh and crisp. An excellent coffee cookie.
Published on March 18, 2011 by kmk
5.0 out of 5 stars
The proven best over the ages
I remember my mom making this icebox cake for me in the early 1950's. My wife used the 'recipe' to carry it on. She whips her own whip cream and it has never ever disappointed. Read more
Published on December 21, 2010 by Ira Friedman
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful gifts
12 boxes were way too many for me, so I sent some to relatives. The Famous Chocolate Refrigerator Roll recipe was included in the boxes I sent. Read more
Published on November 24, 2010 by Patricia
