Manner Knuspino Hazelnut Wafer Cookies 110g (3.9oz)

Manner Knuspino Hazelnut Wafer Cookies are 110g of light, crispy Italian-style wafer biscuits with a hazelnut cream filling — the Knuspino format from Manner, the Vienna-based wafer and confectionery company that has been baking the Neapolitan-tradition wafers since 1898 and that the Austrian and Central European diaspora associates with the pink-wrapped Neapolitan sold at Vienna's Stephansdom. Manner is an Austrian confectionery institution, founded in Vienna in 1898 and famous for the Manner Schnitte — the layered hazelnut wafer that is as associated with Vienna as the Sachertorte — and the Knuspino is the lighter, crispier variant of the Manner wafer tradition, produced in a format closer to the Italian wafer biscuit that Manner's Neapolitan connections informed. Wafer biscuits with hazelnut cream are deeply embedded in the Viennese and Central European sweet tradition: the hazelnut filling that the Austro-Hungarian confectionery industry paired with crispy wafer layers as the light alternative to the heavier chocolate and marzipan confections of the imperial pastry shops, a tradition that Manner, Loacker, and every Central European wafer brand has maintained for generations. Eat with afternoon coffee or espresso in the Austrian tradition, set on a biscuit plate at a Viennese-style coffee gathering, give in a pack as an inexpensive Austrian confectionery gift, or keep in the pantry as the light hazelnut wafer that satisfies the sweet craving without the weight of a proper chocolate bar.