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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tipsy cake

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 George A. Birmingham

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 Mary Harrison

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

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

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 Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

If there's any over after the soup we can make it into tipsy cake with the juice of the peaches.

From Priscilla's Spies by George A. Birmingham

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