Tunis cake

Tunis cake
Type Madeira cake
Main ingredients chocolate icing, marzipan

A Tunis cake is a Madeira cake topped with a thick layer of chocolate and decorated with marzipan fruits. It is traditionally eaten at Christmas.[1]

The origins of the cake are Edwardian. Scottish bakery Macfarlane Langs produced commercial Tunis Cakes in the 1930s, and when they merged with McVitie & Price in 1948 to form a company called United Biscuits (which still owns the McVitie’s brand) the recipe passed to the new company. McVitie's produced a Tunis cake until the mid 1980s.[2] It is now sold seasonally by some supermarkets in the UK. An early recipe does not include the chocolate and marzipan topping.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Christmas 2011 order form" (PDF). 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-16.
  2. ↑ http://www.epicureansanswer.com/tunis-cake-2/tunis-cake-pt-ii/
  3. ↑ Frederick T. Vine (1907). Saleable shop goods for counter-tray and window. p. 77. Retrieved 2011-12-16.


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