Gianni's Vanilla Wafers

What is it?

The traditional British ice cream wafer, and about as plain as the freezer gets: vanilla ice cream between two rectangular wafers with nothing on or in them. The wafer here isn't the same thing as a biscuit. It's baked from a thin batter between hot plates rather than a dough, which is why it's porous and light rather than dense, and why it goes soft so quickly once it meets anything wet. That fragility is why the format is sold in blocks to be assembled rather than as a finished bar in many parts of the world. Eight to a pack puts it firmly in the everyday rather than the treat end of the range.