Wafer
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In cooking, a wafer is a crisp, sweet, very thin, flat, and dry cake, often used to decorate ice cream. Wafers can also be made into cookies with cream flavoring sandwiched between them. They frequently have a waffle surface pattern but may also be patterned with insignia of the food's manufacturer or may be patternless.
The word also refers to the special small round flat breads made for Anglican Holy Communion services; the word host is used in the Roman Catholic liturgy. These holy wafers often have an image of the crucified Christ imprinted on them.
In the spa towns of the Slovak Republic (e.g. Piešťany, etc.) special "spa wafers" (kúpeľné oplátky) are produced.
In the spa towns of the Czech Republic (e.g. Karlovy Vary, Mariánské Lázně, etc.) special "spa wafers" (lázeňské oplatky) are produced.
Christmas wafers, whose patterns often depict religious scenes, are an Eastern European Roman Catholic Christmas tradition celebrated in Polish, Slovak, Lithuanian and Italian families during Wigilia (Christmas Eve Vigil).
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