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In cooking, a wafer is a crisp, sweet, very thin, flat, and dry Cake that is often used to decorate Ice Cream . Wafers can also be made into Cookies with cream flavoring sandwiched between them. They frequently have a Waffle surface pattern.

The word also refers to the special small round flat breads made for Anglican Holy Communion services; the word Host is used in the Roman Catholic Liturgy . These Holy wafers often have an image of the crucified Christ imprinted on them.

In the spa towns of the Slovak Republic (e.g. Piešťany , etc.) special "spa wafers" (''kúpeľné oplátky'') are produced.

In the spa towns of the Czech Republic (e.g. Karlovy Vary , Mariánské Lázně , etc.) special "spa wafers" (''lázeňské oplatky'') are produced.

Christmas Wafer s are an Eastern Europe an Roman Catholic Christmas Tradition celebrated in Polish , Slovak , Lithuania n and Italian families during Wigilia (''Christmas Eve Vigil'').


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