Loacker Classic Napolitaner Hazelnut Wafers, 90g
This is the one to put out after a heavy meal, when a proper biscuit would be too much and nothing at all would feel mean. The hazelnut cream is closer to a confectionery filling than to the cream in a sandwich biscuit, and because the sheets around it are almost flavourless by design, the nut has the whole mouthful to itself rather than competing with a bake. Hazelnut is named on the front of the pack, so anyone avoiding tree nuts should leave this one alone, and milk is the other thing to check on the current wrapper. It is small, and it is meant to be. Two alongside a black coffee is what the format was built for, and a third would be one too many.
Loacker Classic Napolitaner Hazelnut Wafers, in brief.
Loacker Classic Napolitaner Hazelnut Wafers is thin crisp wafer sheets stacked with hazelnut cream and nothing on the outside, picked into the Teas.co.uk selection as the wafer where the filling is the point rather than something a chocolate bar is built around.
It shatters rather than snaps, it never dunks, and it is at its best beside an espresso or a lighter tea drunk without milk.
Loacker Classic Napolitaner Hazelnut Wafers is not really a biscuit, and treating it as one is the first mistake people make with it. A wafer is mostly air: thin crisp sheets stacked with hazelnut cream between them, so the structure is closer to a pastry than to a baked dough. That changes everything about how it eats, what it goes with and what you should never do with it, which is dunk it.
The hazelnut is the point. It is in the name and it is the flavour doing the work, and hazelnut is an unusually good partner for a wafer because both are delicate. A strong flavour in a wafer would overwhelm the structure and a heavy structure would bury a delicate flavour, so the two have to be matched. What you get is a light, crisp, aromatic thing that collapses cleanly in the mouth rather than needing to be chewed.
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. Common questions are answered in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind The Pack
Loacker is an Italian wafer house and the wafer is what the name stands for, which is unusual on a British shelf where wafers are usually something a chocolate bar is built around rather than the product itself. That difference shows in the proportions. A British wafer bar is typically a thin wafer under a thick coating; a Napolitaner is layer after layer of wafer and cream with nothing on the outside at all. The company heritage is Italian; where this particular pack was made is printed on the packet rather than claimed here.
The proportion of hazelnut in the cream, and everything else about the composition, is the ingredient declaration on the current UK pack. What we can tell you plainly is that hazelnut is named on the front of the pack, so if nuts are a concern this is not a product that needs investigating: read the allergen statement and take it seriously.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our Commitment To The Planet
- The pack that arrives is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe for another market.
- Wafers are fragile, and a crushed pack is a wasted one. We pack these with that in mind rather than treating them as a hard biscuit.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Loacker Classic Napolitaner Hazelnut Wafers, 90g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Loacker
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 hazelnut wafer wants a drink that does not overwhelm it, which rules out a strong builder's brew and rules in almost everything else. The delicacy of the wafer is the constraint: this is the one product in this part of the range where a lighter tea is genuinely the better choice, and where coffee has the clearest advantage over tea.
The Coffee Serve
The Lighter Tea Serve
Made with this tea
The Espresso Serve
How to make The Espresso Serve with Loacker Napolitaner Wafers.
- 2 hazelnut wafers
- 1 espresso or small strong black coffee
- A saucer, not a plate
- Pull an espresso, or make a small strong black coffee. No milk and no sugar.
- Lay two wafers on the saucer. This is the classic continental serve and there is no improving on it.
- Alternate a sip and a bite. Roast aromatics and nut aromatics belong to the same family, and the bitterness sits against the sweet cream.
- Do not dunk. The wafer absorbs instantly and there is nothing to hold it together.
The Light Tea Serve
How to make The Light Tea Serve with Loacker Napolitaner Wafers.
- 3 hazelnut wafers
- 1 bag light black tea, green tea or rooibos
- 200ml water
- Brew three minutes rather than four. This is the one pack here that a strong cup actively harms.
- Leave out the milk and the sugar. Milk removes the only contrast the cup was providing and sugar flattens the nut.
- Try a rooibos if you have one. Its natural nuttiness runs alongside the hazelnut rather than against it.
- Eat over a plate. The wafer shatters in several directions at once.
What you'll end up with: A tea break where the biscuit is the delicate one and the cup has to hold back, which is unusual in this range.
Affogato With A Wafer
How to make Affogato With A Wafer with Loacker Napolitaner Wafers.
- 2 hazelnut wafers
- 2 scoops vanilla ice cream
- 1 hot espresso
- Put two scoops of vanilla ice cream into a cold glass.
- Pour a hot espresso over them at the table.
- Stand a wafer in the glass and serve the second one alongside, not in the coffee.
- Eat quickly. The wafer in the glass has about a minute before it gives up, which is the intended effect.
What you'll end up with: A restaurant pudding assembled in three minutes, using the wafer as the garnish it was always meant to be.
Wafer And Cream Layer Pots
How to make Wafer And Cream Layer Pots with Loacker Napolitaner Wafers.
- 6 hazelnut wafers, broken
- 250ml double cream, whipped
- 2 tablespoons cold strong coffee
- Dark chocolate, grated
- Whip the cream to soft peaks and fold the cold coffee through it. Do not sweeten; the wafers bring the sugar.
- Layer broken wafer and coffee cream into four small glasses, finishing with cream.
- Chill for no more than an hour. Longer and the wafer softens completely, which loses the contrast.
- Grate dark chocolate over the top just before serving.
What you'll end up with: Something close to a tiramisu without any of the work, built on a 90g pack.
Hazelnut Crumb Topping
How to make Hazelnut Crumb Topping with Loacker Napolitaner Wafers.
- 4 hazelnut wafers
- Ice cream, yoghurt or a set custard
- A pinch of flaky salt, optional
- Crush the wafers in a bag to a fine dust. They break down further than any biscuit here and need no rolling pin.
- Scatter over ice cream, plain yoghurt or a set custard at the moment of serving.
- Add a pinch of flaky salt if the thing underneath is sweet.
- Never prepare this in advance; the dust goes soft within minutes on anything cold and wet.
What you'll end up with: A praline-style topping without making praline, and the best use for the broken ones at the bottom of the pack.
The Lunchbox Warning
How to make The Lunchbox Warning with Loacker Napolitaner Wafers.
- 2 hazelnut wafers
- A rigid tub, not a bag
- The school nut policy, checked first
- Check the nut policy before this goes anywhere near a school bag. Hazelnut is a characterising ingredient here, not a trace.
- Pack into a rigid tub. A wafer in a soft bag arrives as dust.
- Keep it dry rather than merely cool; humidity turns a wafer limp faster than warmth does.
- Send two. They are light and the pack is small.
What you'll end up with: An intact wafer at lunchtime, which is not the default outcome for this product.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 517 kcal |
| Fat | 27g |
| of which saturates | 19g |
| Carbohydrate | 58g |
| of which sugars | 25g |
| Fibre | 0g |
| Protein | 8.6g |
| Salt | 0.4g |
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat and barley (gluten), milk, soya and nuts (hazelnuts), and it may contain mustard, peanuts and sesame. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredients, as published for this barcode: wheat flour, coconut oil, glucose syrup, sugar, hazelnuts 9% in the cream, whey powder ( milk), soy flour, skimmed milk powder, lean cocoa, dextrose, barley malt extract, raising agents (sodium bicarbonate, disodium diphosphate), salt, emulsifier soy lecithins, bourbon vanilla pods, spices.
Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Hazelnut cream | between every layer | The flavour and the reason to buy the pack. Aromatic rather than heavy, and it arrives immediately because there is no coating in the way. The faint bitterness natural to hazelnut is what stops the cream reading as pure sugar. |
| Wafer sheets | the structure | Thin, crisp and almost flavourless by design. Their job is texture rather than taste, and the stack of them is why the product is mostly air and why it shatters in several directions at once. |
Pack: Loacker Classic Napolitaner Hazelnut Wafers, 90g; stacked crisp wafer sheets with hazelnut cream, uncoated. Best before the date printed on the pack, and best kept sealed and dry rather than merely cool.
The description of the wafer as light, shattering and unsuitable for dunking is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description.
Sourcing & blend. Loacker Classic Napolitaner Hazelnut Wafers, 90g is made by Loacker, an Italian wafer house where the wafer is what the name stands for. That is unusual on a British shelf, where a wafer is normally something a chocolate bar is built around, and the difference shows in the proportions: a British wafer bar is a thin wafer under a thick coating, while a Napolitaner is layer after layer of wafer and cream with nothing on the outside at all. The company heritage is Italian; where this particular pack was made is printed on the packet rather than claimed here. The pack you receive is the current UK retail pack.
What is in Loacker Classic Napolitaner Hazelnut Wafers, 90g, and what is not:
- In: stacked crisp wafer sheets with hazelnut cream between them, in a single 90g pack.
- No coating: nothing on the outside at all, which is what distinguishes a continental wafer from a British wafer bar and why the filling rather than a chocolate shell is the flavour.
- Not a dunking product: a wafer absorbs instantly and has no structure to hold, so it fails in a cup regardless of timing. That is a structural description, not a claim off the pack.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Loacker Classic Napolitaner Hazelnut Wafers, 90g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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