tipsy cake

British  

noun

1. a kind of trifle made from a sponge cake soaked with white wine or sherry and decorated with almonds and crystallized fruit

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Example Sentences

Boiled turkey, celery sauce.Grouse.Plum pudding, mince pies, tipsy cake, stone cream, cheese ramequins.Cheese.Dessert.

From The Skilful Cook A Practical Manual of Modern Experience by Harrison, Mary

This is cherry-pie, and there is some tipsy cake.

From Big Game A Story for Girls by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Micky was prodding the tipsy cake with a fork.

From The Phantom Lover by Ayres, Ruby M. (Ruby Mildred)

That's the way tipsy cake is made, except for the sherry, which always rather spoils it, I think, on account of the burny taste it gives.

From Priscilla's Spies by Birmingham, George A.

Mode.—Procure a cake that is three or four days old,—either sponge, Savoy, or rice answering for the purpose of a tipsy cake.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)