Tunis cake
| Tunis cake | |
|---|---|
| Type | Madeira cake |
| Main ingredients | chocolate icing, marzipan |
 Cookbook:Tunis cake  Tunis cake | |
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 Tesco, Waitrose and Marks and Spencer. An early recipe does not include the chocolate and marzipan topping.[3]
References
- ↑ "Christmas 2011 order form". 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-16.
- ↑ http://www.epicureansanswer.com/tunis-cake-2/tunis-cake-pt-ii/
- ↑ Frederick T. Vine (1907). Saleable shop goods for counter-tray and window. p. 77. Retrieved 2011-12-16.