fern cake

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English

Noun

fern cake (plural fern cakes)

  1. A Scottish confection consisting of a small round iced cake with a chocolate fern traced on top.
    • 1978, Mary Burg Whitcomb, Tee-Bo in the Great Hort Hunt, page 68:
      The last fern cake, and you hid it, you deceitful girl!
    • 1998, Robert L. Aitken, Not Many Noble: A Story of the Lanarkshire Coalfield, page 210:
      So both of us were satisfied when she whispered "Wid ye like my pie" and sometimes it stretched to a fern cake or an eiffel tower as well.
    • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 378:
      McCoy was in a booth with a pot of tea and a fern cake in front of him, that day's Tribune open on the table.