I am excited to be making pupcakes for a birthday this week but am so new to baking / making anything fancy that I am worried.  The recipe for each puppy decorated cupcake includes a template for ears that says to use Famous Chocolate Wafers.  They weren’t an option at the local store although I found a further away store i could go to - if i found the time.  Instead, I bought a thin wafer thing called Oreo ThinCrisps.  Other ideas we had were chocolate grahams or oreos with the insides scraped out.  I will be making a practice litter tonight because i am so nervous - my question is, since i have never seen a Famous Choc Wafer and with the idea that i will be cutting and shaping dog ears out of the cookie, do you recommend one of my local options over the others?  Or maybe just have a lot of frosting in a piping thing ready?  Any advice is very welcomed!  Thank you.

I recommend just baking a recipe of chocolate cookies; they’ll be a lot better than the Nabisco product anyway.  There’s really nothing special about them, other than being pretty dry and not very sweet.

Thank you for posting in my week of panic. 

I’ll see how some turn out tonight and see if i can make them dog ear shape and color.  thanks.

Just wanted to wish you luck!

If the store-bought cookies turn out too difficult to shape without breaking (is that what you’re trying to do with them?), do what Charles recommended, make up a basic chocolate sugar cookie and then you can cut it to shape before you bake it.

Famous Wafers were pretty crispy as I recall; you could get a similar effect using the oreos with the insides removed.  I thought the wafers were bigger cookies, though.  Can you find chocolate Nilla wafers? Or those oreo cookie things that are more like cake (softer)?

Hi Birthdaycakedevote,
I went to my kitchen and opened a box of the Famous Nabisco Chocolate Wafers that I use for a wonderful mocha chocolate icebox cake.
They are 2 and 1/4 inches round and about 1/8 inch thick.
Don’t know if this helps.
Good luck!