God's Growing Garden: Oblatten - Chocolate Wafer Cookie / Treat

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Oblatten - Chocolate Wafer Cookie / Treat

Oblatten - Chocolate Wafer Cookie/Treat

This is a simple and delicious chocolate treat and it is a recipe from my mom's side of the family. I'm not sure if this recipe is originally German, Hungarian or maybe even Yugoslavian - anyway it's yummy!

We call this a cookie but it is not crispy like the store-bought wafer cookies available - this is more like a chocolate ganache filled treat (not a frosting filled treat).

Printable Recipe

Ingredients:

1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 cup heavy cream (heavy whipping cream)

1/4 cup unsalted butter (room temperature)

1 package of "Tort Wafers"

In a double boiler, melt the chocolate chips and the cream together (gently stirring all the time), Continue cooking and stirring until the chunks have completely melted (see progression in the pictures below).

Once the chocolate is melted, turn off the heat and stir in the butter until it is completely melted and combined into the chocolate.

Take the top pot off the hot water to cool to warm (The chocolate MUST still be spreadable so make sure NOT to cool it too much). If you want to hurry the cooling process you may place the top pan in a shallow amount of cold/ice water (see picture below but make sure that NO WATER gets into the chocolate)

Remove the wafers from the package. You will only be using half the package. Cut them in half so that they will fit into a Pyrex dish.

I used a pizza cutter to cut them in half (see pictures below).

Assembly

Line your Pyrex dish with parchment paper and gently place the first cut wafer piece in the dish (see picture below):

Spread some of the cooled melted chocolate evenly on top of that first wafer (see picture below):

Place the next wafer on top of the chocolate layer and lightly press down on top wafer just to make sure the chocolate gets into the groves.

Keep repeating (spreading chocolate and adding next wafer) until all wafer layers have been used up (remember - you are only using half of the wafer package). Save enough ganache (melted chocolate mixture) to spread on the final top layer (see picture below):

Place dish in fridge and allow the chocolate to soak into the wafer layers for about an hour. Then place in freezer overnight.

Remove from the freezer and allow to warm for about 10 minutes. Then begin slicing into rectangular shapes (I used a pizza cutter to draw the lines and start the slice but finished slicing all the layers with a large knife (see picture above).