Tried using Effie’s choc crackers/cookies just bc I had some extra whipped cream. In the fridge for 24 hrs+. Grated semi sweet choc on top. Was very good,
Not the same but pretty easy. Why oh why would they discontinue the wafers?and why has no one else produced them.
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I can’t understand it either.
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Since I last posted, Mr Christie in Canada has also stopped making the Canadian version of the Chocolate Wafers.
Here are some other ideas.
And a recipe
I bet an icebox cake made with Tate’s chocolate cookies would be pretty decadent.
A problem I’ve encountered with other chocolate wafers or crisp chocolate cookies used in similar ways is that they’re missing the deeper chocolate flavor of the Nabisco ones. It always seemed odd to me that Famous Chocolate Wafers had coconut, which I only learned by reading the ingredients, but it was really the black cocoa that was in the FCW that gave them their distinctive depth and color. Which is presumably why it’s part of the KAB recipe.
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I suppose if a person is desperate, they could scrape the filling out of a whole batch of Oreo Thins. The chocolate wafers were just thin Oreo cookies, right?
Similar, but not identical. As I noted, the FCW had coconut (even though you couldn’t really taste it0, and I think were a touch sweeter (Oreos make up the difference with the filling), but they both are made with black cocoa. Don’t they sell (or at least they once did) boxes of oreo cookie crumbs? Wouldn’t work for an icebox cake, but for crumb uses…
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Some online suggestions include chocolate Anna’s Swedish Thins. They would be the right texture and thickness. I usually see the ginger flavour, and don’t remember seeing the chocolate ones where I shop
Anna’s thins do work well, texture-wise, but you’re right that one doesn’t see them as often as the other flavors.
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Nigella uses Bourbon Cremes as the cookie in the base of this pie.
Could work as a substitute for chocolate wafers, I suppose! Probably a little less sweet than crushed Oreos or Fudgee-Os.
I just found a package of these in my stash. I bought them before they disappeared, but I can’t find an expiration date on them.
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I found these cookies to avoid the store two days before Thanksgiving, although the recipe called for chocolate graham crackers. Amazon only had fairly large boxes of the grahams, so I stumbled on these. They were very good. I’ve also scraped out the filling between regular Oreos and used them.
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Homemade ones are excellent. I used to make them in the restaurant for our chocolate mousse cups. Quick and easy. You can keep in the freezer and slice and bake fast.
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pls tell us how!
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Whatcha gonna make with ‘em?
thanks for the link. how close are they in flavor to the original? did you have any problem cutting them thin enough?
I don’t have a problem making them thin enough and to me they taste exactly like the original with a toasty chocolatey crunch. This picture is from one of my first attempts years ago. The more you chill the dough before cutting, the easier.
@mig I make a chocolate pudding, fold it with whipped cream and some shaved chocolate and make a kind of layered parfait. So, a “chocolate, chocolate chocolate mousse parfait,” if you will…
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