Caxton Pink & White Wafers, 85g
Nothing else on this shelf gives way as easily. A wafer dissolves rather than breaking, which is why the pink one ends up in front of the youngest person at a table and often the oldest, and why it has never needed a plate or an explanation. The colours are colours; we are not going to invent a flavour difference between them, and what they are is on the pack. What it will not do is wait. Wheat, and the milk line is on the box.
Caxton Pink & White Wafers, in brief.
Caxton Pink & White Wafers is an 85g pack of the wafer everyone in Britain recognises, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the occasion biscuit in our range: the one bought for a plate rather than for a flavour.
The pack names colours rather than flavours, and what they are meant to taste of is a question for the declaration on it. Structurally this is air and sweet cream, which makes it light, very sweet, and the fastest thing here to go soft.
Per the published ingredient list the recipe is led by glucose syrup and wheat flour and is made with gelatine.
The honest thing to say about a pink wafer is that the pack names colours rather than flavours, and we are not going to invent a difference between them. What the two colours are meant to taste of, if anything, is a question for the ingredient declaration on the pack. What they are actually for is the look of a plate: this is a biscuit chosen for an occasion rather than for a flavour, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Storage, why resealing matters most of all and which drink cuts it are in the detailed Q and A tab below.
Curator’s notes
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The Story Behind the pink wafer
The pink wafer is one of the fixed points of British biscuit culture: children's teas, church halls, office tins, the bottom layer of every assortment. It has survived every change of fashion in the biscuit aisle by not participating in any of them, and there is something to be said for a product that knows exactly what it is.
What it is, structurally, is the same thing as any other wafer: sheets that are mostly air with a fat-and-sugar cream between them, which means it is light, very sweet, and the fastest thing on our shelf to go soft once the pack is open. The colour is the whole identity.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
What You Are Actually Buying
- Weight: 85g.
Getting It Right in the Cup
- Reseal immediately: the most important instruction on this page. A wafer sheet pulls moisture out of the air within hours, and a soft one does not come back the way a baked biscuit does.
- Serve them standing up: in a glass or stacked on a plate rather than laid flat. It is a small thing and it is most of why people put them out.
- Room temperature: cold makes the cream firm and the sheets no crisper. There is nothing to gain from a fridge.
- Two, not six: a wafer is light enough to eat without noticing and sweet enough that you should notice.
- Best with: a strong mug of tea, or crushed over ice cream, where the cream melts and the sheets hold their texture for a minute or two.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Caxton Pink & White Wafers, 85g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Caxton
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our commitment to the planet
Sourcing and packaging details are printed on the current UK pack; the brand page carries the fuller story.
The taste profile
How does it compare
A plain sweet wafer has nothing in it to cut the sugar, which narrows the drink choice sharply. It needs something hot, clean and genuinely bitter, with enough liquid in the mouth to deal with how dry the sheets are.
The Standard Coffee Break
The Tea Break
Made with this tea
The Strong Tea Break
How to make The Strong Tea Break with Caxton Pink and White Wafers.
- 2 wafers, at room temperature
- 1 mug strong everyday black tea
- A splash of milk at most
- Brew the tea properly strong, four minutes, so there is real tannin in the cup.
- Use barely any milk. Milk softens exactly the astringency this biscuit needs.
- Eat alongside rather than dunking; a wafer takes up liquid faster than any biscuit on the shelf.
- Reseal the pack the moment you have taken what you want.
What you'll end up with: The pairing this biscuit has been served beside for generations, and it holds up. Tannin is the only thing cutting a plainly sweet cream.
The Party Plate
How to make The Party Plate with Caxton Pink and White Wafers.
- A whole pack
- A tall glass or a shallow plate
- Fresh strawberries or raspberries
- Stand the wafers upright in a glass rather than laying them flat. It is a small thing and it is most of why people put them out.
- Alternate the colours deliberately; the whole point of the product is visual.
- Add fresh berries on the plate, which bring the acid the wafer has none of.
- Set them out late rather than early, because an exposed wafer softens within the hour.
What you'll end up with: The job this biscuit exists to do. Nothing else on our shelf makes a plate look like a party as efficiently, and fresh fruit alongside keeps it from being only sugar.
Crushed Wafer Over Ice Cream
How to make Crushed Wafer Over Ice Cream with Caxton Pink and White Wafers.
- 4 wafers, crushed by hand
- 2 scoops vanilla ice cream
- A handful of raspberries
- A pinch of flaky salt
- Crush the wafers to a coarse rubble rather than a powder.
- Scoop the ice cream into cold bowls and crush the raspberries roughly over it.
- Scatter the wafer and a pinch of salt at the last moment; it starts softening immediately.
- Eat within the minute, while the sheets still have their texture.
What you'll end up with: A wafer holds its crispness against something cold far longer than a crumb biscuit does, and the raspberries supply the acid that the biscuit cannot.
Iced Coffee With Wafer
How to make Iced Coffee With Wafer with Caxton Pink and White Wafers.
- 2 wafers
- 2 shots espresso, cooled
- Ice and cold water
- A splash of milk, optional
- Cool the espresso and pour it over plenty of ice with cold water, unsweetened.
- Keep it black or nearly; the wafer has brought all the sweetness the glass needs.
- Serve the wafer on the side rather than in the glass.
- Alternate sips and bites, which keeps the bitter drink resetting the sweet biscuit.
What you'll end up with: Cold, bitter and long against light, dry and sweet. The best summer version of a pairing that usually happens in a warm kitchen.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 356 kcal |
| Fat | 1.7g |
| of which saturates | 0.4g |
| Carbohydrate | 80.2g |
| of which sugars | 38.3g |
| Fibre | 1.1g |
| Protein | 5.6g |
| Salt | 0.2g |
Ingredients, as published for this product: Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium, Iron, Niacin and Thiamin), Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Invert Sugar, Gelatine, Soya Flour, Natural Colour (Beetroot), Sunflower Oil, Salt, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Raising Agent (Sodium Bicarbonate), Skimmed Milk Powder, Natural Vanilla Flavour, Natural Colour (Annatto), Cornflour.
Ingredient and nutrition data for this product: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list it contains wheat (gluten), soya and milk, and it is made with gelatine, so it is not suitable for vegetarians or vegans. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Sweet cream filling | the filling and the flavour | Light, sugary and straightforward with a faint vanilla direction. What the filling is built from is printed on the current UK pack. |
| Wafer sheets | the structure | Thin baked sheets, mostly air, close to neutral in flavour. They give the pack its lightness and its shatter, and they are the part that suffers once the pack is open. |
| Net weight | 85g | No piece count is published for it. |
Pack: Best before the date printed on the pack, and best resealed tightly the moment it is opened.
Sourcing & blend. Caxton Pink & White Wafers, 85g is a British wafer line and one of the fixed points of the biscuit aisle, and the pack you receive is the current UK retail pack.
What is in Caxton Pink & White Wafers, 85g, and what is not:
- In: cream-filled wafers, half of them pink, 85g to the sealed pack, by the brand's own naming on the front.
- No flavour claim about the colours: the pack names colours and we have verified no difference in taste, so we assert none.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Caxton Pink & White Wafers, 85g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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