Will Easy Desserts Ever Be the Same Without Famous Chocolate Wafers?

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For nearly a century, Nabisco’s Famous Chocolate Wafers have been essential to the classic icebox cake and the crusts of no-bake pies and cheesecakes. They hit the market in 1924 just as refrigerators were working their way into American homes and made icebox cakes, which originally called for whipped cream layered with homemade cookies, even easier to assemble. Nabisco later printed a recipe for one on the back of the chocolate wafer boxes, cementing the cookie as a key ingredient everyone could depend on—until now.

Famous Chocolate Wafers never hit their 100-year anniversary because Nabisco quietly discontinued the cookies at the start of this year. And now that we’re in the height of summer, some bakers on our Hotline are discovering the news for the first time as they reach for their favorite low-lift desserts.

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