A wafer is a crisp, often sweet, very thin, flat, light and dry cookie, often used to decorate ice cream, and also used as a garnish on some sweet dishes. Wafers can also be made into cookies with cream flavoring sandwiched between them.

Is a wafer a cookie or a cracker?

Vanilla wafers are considered a cookie, so they are a sweet snack. However, graham crackers and animal crackers are considered crackers and are not counted as sweet items.

Are cookies and wafers the same?

As nouns the difference between wafer and cookie

is that wafer is a light, thin, flat biscuit while cookie is (label) a small, flat, baked cake which is either crisp or soft but firm (often with chocolate chips, candies or nuts mixed in).