Pink Panther Wafers, 154g
Judged as an adult's biscuit this was never going to win. That is the wrong test to be setting it. It was built for a children's table: light, bright, quick to eat, with the coating carrying the entire flavour because the wafer underneath is structure and air. Buy it for a party plate or a lunchbox, not for a tea tray. Keep it sealed, because wafer gives up its crispness inside a day in a damp kitchen. Contains wheat, and check the pack for milk and for the colours used.
Pink Panther Wafers, in brief.
Pink Panther Wafers is a light layered wafer under the pink coating the brand is named for, one hundred and fifty-four grams to the pack, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the children's wafer of the range.
A wafer is the lightest thing in biscuit making, baked almost to nothing and carrying very little moisture, so it stays crisp in a lunchbox and gives almost no resistance under the teeth. The pink coating carries the flavour as well as the colour. Sweet, one-note and over quickly: the right answer for a child and a thin one for an adult.
Pink Panther Wafers is a layered wafer sold on colour as much as on flavour, one hundred and fifty-four grams to the pack. It is a children's biscuit and there is no point pretending otherwise: the pink is the product, the cartoon is the reason it is asked for by name, and the wafer underneath is a light, sweet, fast-eating thing built to be picked up between other activities.
Judged against what it is, it does the job. A wafer is the lightest construction in biscuit making, baked almost to nothing and carrying very little moisture of its own, so it stays crisp for a long time and gives almost no resistance under the teeth. What it is not is a biscuit for a tea break, and the honest reading of this pack is that anybody buying it for themselves rather than for a child is likely to find it thin.
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.
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The Story Behind Pink Panther
This is a licensed character biscuit, and that is the honest description of the category rather than a criticism of it. The cartoon puts the pack in a child's hand and the colour keeps it there, and the confectionery trade has built products this way for as long as there have been characters to license.
What is worth saying is that the wafer format is a sensible choice for it. A wafer is cheap to make, it is light enough that a child finishes one without losing interest, it stays crisp in a lunchbox, and it takes a coloured coating better than a denser biscuit does because there is so little flavour underneath to compete with. Whoever specified this product chose the right construction for the brief.
The ingredient list, the allergen advice, the count and the net weight must all be read off the current UK pack rather than taken from this page.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
What You Are Actually Buying
- Weight: one hundred and fifty-four grams.
- Bought for the colour: and there is no sense in dressing that up. This is a novelty wafer and the pink is the proposition.
- Very light: which is a genuine advantage for a child's snack and a genuine limitation for an adult one. It is over almost as soon as it starts.
- Contains gluten: it is a wheat wafer and is not suitable for a coeliac diet. Everything else belongs to the current pack.
Ideal Serving Conditions
There is very little to say about serving a wafer that the wafer does not say itself, and the honest version of this section is short. It is light, it is sweet, it is eaten in a few seconds, and the main thing you can do wrong is store it badly. Humidity is the enemy of every wafer ever made, because the whole product is a dry structure surrounded by air.
The Lunchbox Serve
- One is enough: the sweetness is high and one-note, and the format is small. Two in a lunchbox is a lot of sugar for very little biscuit.
- Keep it out of the sun: a warm coating dulls and marks whatever it touches, and a warm wafer softens surprisingly quickly.
The Grown-Up Serve
- It is not one: we would rather say this plainly than pad the section out. This biscuit is not built for a tea break and does not improve for being treated as though it were.
- If you are going to: black coffee rather than tea. The wafer contributes no bitterness at all, and a bitter drink at least gives the sweetness something to land against.
- Do not dunk it: a wafer has no crumb to wick water evenly. It takes on liquid all at once and collapses, and a collapsed wafer is an unpleasant thing.
- Crush it instead: a wafer is much better crushed over ice cream or set into fridge squares than it is eaten on its own with a hot drink.
Getting It Right with a Hot Drink
- Pairing: black coffee if anything. This is not a tea biscuit and there is no arguing it into being one.
- Avoid: hot chocolate, milkshakes and sweetened drinks. It is a sweet wafer and it needs no help.
- Dunking: no. A wafer takes on liquid all at once and collapses; there is no window at all.
- Storage: airtight and dry, and this matters more than it does for a denser biscuit. A wafer is mostly air, and air in a humid room means a soft wafer within a day of opening.
- Best with: a lunchbox, a party table, a bowl of ice cream that wants something crushed over it, or a child who has been promised something pink.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Pink Panther Wafers, 154g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Pink Panther
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
Pink Panther Wafers, 154g is light, sweet and already coloured, which makes it far more useful crushed into something than eaten beside a hot drink. Five builds below cover the party plate, crushed over ice cream, a fridge square, a milkshake rim and a children's trifle layer.
Made with this tea
The Party Plate
How to make The Party Plate with Pink Panther Wafers.
- 6 Pink Panther Wafers
- A bowl of strawberries or raspberries
- Cold water or squash
- Stand the wafers upright on a plate rather than stacking them. They are light and they break under their own weight in a pile.
- Put a bowl of sharp fresh fruit beside them. It is the only thing on the table pushing back against the sugar.
- Serve last, once the savoury food has gone. A wafer eaten first spoils the appetite for very little in return.
- Clear them within the hour, because wafers left out on a plate soften faster than anything else on the table.
What you'll end up with: A plate that looks like more than it is, which on a party table is the entire brief.
Crushed Over Ice Cream
How to make Crushed Over Ice Cream with Pink Panther Wafers.
- 2 wafers, crushed
- 4 scoops vanilla ice cream
- A handful of raspberries
- Crush two wafers coarsely between your hands over the bowls. Fine crumbs disappear into the ice cream; pieces stay crisp.
- Scatter the raspberries on top so there is something sharp against the sweetness.
- Eat immediately. Wafer on ice cream is crisp for about a minute and soft after that.
What you'll end up with: The best use for this wafer by some distance, and it takes three minutes.
Pink Fridge Squares
How to make Pink Fridge Squares with Pink Panther Wafers.
- 120g wafers, broken into chunks
- 100g butter
- 3 tablespoons golden syrup
- 300g white chocolate
- Break the wafers into large chunks rather than crushing them, so the pink stays visible in the set slab.
- Melt the butter, syrup and white chocolate together over a very low heat, watching it closely because white chocolate catches easily.
- Fold the wafer chunks through at the last moment. Fold twice and no more, or they break down into crumbs.
- Press into a lined tin, chill for three hours and cut into twelve.
What you'll end up with: Bright pink against white chocolate, which is the whole reason to make this version rather than a standard tiffin.
Wafer-Rimmed Milkshake
How to make Wafer-Rimmed Milkshake with Pink Panther Wafers.
- 2 wafers, crushed fine
- 4 scoops vanilla ice cream
- 200ml cold milk
- 1 tablespoon honey for the rim
- Crush two wafers as finely as you can and tip them onto a saucer.
- Brush the rim of each glass with a little honey and turn it in the crushed wafer.
- Blitz the ice cream and milk together and pour carefully, keeping the rim dry.
- Serve at once, before the rim softens.
What you'll end up with: A pink rim on a plain shake, which is a great deal of effect for two wafers.
Children's Trifle Layer
How to make Children's Trifle Layer with Pink Panther Wafers.
- 4 wafers, broken
- 200g strawberries, sliced
- 300ml cold custard
- 150ml whipped cream
- Break the wafers into the bottom of four glasses. They stand in for sponge and bring their own sugar, so add none.
- Layer the sliced strawberries over them.
- Spoon cold custard over, then the whipped cream.
- Chill for no more than twenty minutes. Unlike sponge, wafer does not want long contact with custard: it goes from crisp to gone quite quickly.
What you'll end up with: A trifle built in a quarter of an hour, with the wafer doing the job sponge normally does.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 532 kcal |
| Fat | 30g |
| of which saturates | 17g |
| Carbohydrate | 61.8g |
| of which sugars | 24.5g |
| Protein | 3.9g |
| Salt | 0.2g |
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten) and soya. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredients, as published for this barcode: Vegetable oils (palm, rapeseed), sugar, wheat flour, wheat starch, potato starch, emulsifier: soya lecithin; vegetable concentrates (red beetroot, red radish), natural vanilla flavouring, salt, raising agent: sodium carbonates.
Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.
| Component | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|
Pack: Pink Panther Wafers, 154g; layered wafers carrying the pink coating the brand is named for. Store airtight, cool and dry, out of direct sunlight. Read the net weight, the count, the ingredient list, the colour and allergen declarations and the best-before date off the current UK pack.
Characterising components shown.
Sourcing & blend. Pink Panther Wafers, 154g is a licensed character wafer, and the format suits the brief: a wafer is light, crisp, quick to eat and easy to carry, and it takes a coloured coating better than a denser biscuit because there is very little flavour underneath to compete with. That is a sensible piece of product specification rather than a shortcut.
What's in Pink Panther Wafers, 154g, and what isn't:
- In: layered wafers carrying the pink coating the brand is named for, in a 154g pack.
- Contains gluten: it is a wheat wafer and is not suitable for a coeliac diet.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Pink Panther Wafers, 154g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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