fern cake

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.