In America, they are produced by the Austrian Oblaten Co. of Minneapolis. The delicate, pale gold wafer cookies reportedly first were made in 1787 in Carlsbad, a spa town now called Karlovy Vary ...

You need to come up with something impressive on short notice. Here’s an answer: Original Carlsbad Oblaten wafers or Kenny B’s Biscottini cookies. These gourmet treats have their roots in ...

The packaging is intriguing, and the story of how this traditional Czech wafer cookie, known as the oplatky, interchangeably called oblaten in German, came to be made in Sacramento is even more so.