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Log pyramid cake... what is it?

  • 13-08-2012 01:56PM
    #1
    cjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭


    I'm trying to remember what a local traditional cake is called. We used to get it in Cork, in the family run shops. It was a typical log length, but pyramid shaped, as in like a Toblerone. Inside was like a marble cake and there may have been cream. The cake was covered with chocolate. I haven't see one is years and no-one can remember what they were called. Any help?
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  • #2
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    Was it fresh baked or in a foil wrapper? If it's the foil wrapper version I know the cakes you're talking about & see them a lot in Spars & Centras/other convenience shops in Dublin. Will try & spot one on the way home & get a name for the maker


  • #3
    Batigol309
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 214 ✭✭Batigol309


    Battenburg Cakes...lovely with a cup of tea....you have to fight for end pieces though...only one side not covered in chocolate. The Old Mill do them and you get them still in Dunnes and Supervalus


  • #4
    cjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭cjohnson


    I've checked with my mother and she remembers them to be packaged in a box, similar to what the Gateaux brand is now. I've never seen them in Dublin, so would be curious!


  • #5
    aujopimur
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    The Battenberg made by Thompsons bakery on McCurtain St in Cork was the nicest, anything produced since has been crap.


  • #6
    phormium
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    Battenburg is rectangle, two tone on inside and totally enclosed in marzipan not chocolate. I know the cakes you mean but have not seen one in a while.


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  • #7
    cjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭cjohnson


    No, not the Batenburg, which is branded by several companies. This cake was chocolate covered, but was a 3D lengthened triangle. Like a solid toblerone cake...


  • #8
    leahyl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,472 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    cjohnson wrote: »
    No, not the Batenburg, which is branded by several companies. This cake was chocolate covered, but was a 3D lengthened triangle. Like a solid toblerone cake...

    I know which one you're talking about but I'm pretty sure that was a form of battenburg cake also no?


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