Tunis cake anyone?

George_Bray

Pam

>The chocolate Tesco's uses is bland, as is the sponge.
>From my memory, the McVities was a quality tasting
>madeira sponge, and the tasty thick chocolate was
>quite smooth to cut - this year's splits all over the place.

I strongly agree with you on all these points. Thank you also for your recollections on the McVitie icing, which fits with other pointers picked up elsewhere, as well as my own hazy memory.

Badfighta

We have a Mcvities Tunis cake cardboard box that hold our Christmas decorations to this day!:D

Sadly it doesn`t have a picture of the cake on it . It`s only the box that the store would have opened to put the cakes on the shelves .

kabie

I'd forgotten about these and my husband says he's never heard of them.
I'm making one tonight for my sons birthday tomorrow: thanks to OP for the recipe.

essexgal

Tunis Cake ! :j

Probably the reason I don't like Christmas Cake - why have marzipan and rock hard icing (yuk) when you could have lovely smooth madeira cake with CHOCOLATE !!!!

I remember we had to cut it with a (very) sharp knife 'cos the chocolate was soooooo thick. Am fairly sure the butter cream icing was yellow and piped in swirls round the edge. I thought the fruit were spaced out but I might be remembering our homemade version as we made all our own cakes when I was little.

The Tesco one looks as if the madeira is too light in texture - I remember it being more 'solid' iykwim.

essexgal

George_Bray

Badfighta wrote: »

We have a Mcvities Tunis cake cardboard box that hold our Christmas decorations to this day!:D Sadly it doesn`t have a picture of the cake on it . It`s only the box that the store would have opened to put the cakes on the shelves .

Sounds interesting. Any chance of scanning whatever it says on the box, for display here? My Dad always used to take hundreds of photos of anything boring but never anything potentially interesting, like the Xmas tea table spread in the mid-70s, say which would probably have included a Tunis Cake.

I bought a Sainsbury's Tunis cake this weekend. It's £4.99 like the Tesco one and, for my taste, the sponge is significantly better. The chococate still cracks/fractures all over when you try to cut a slice and it's still a long way short of the McVities one, but it's better than Tesco's and the Waitrose one I tried a few years back.

Regards
George

puss_in_boots_4

i saw the sainsburys one today ... looks very yummy .... which is why i had to look for a recipe ... my daughter has a dairy allergy, so i can make her one but wouldnt be able to buy one!!!!! thanks x x

duchez

I to search every year in vain for the McVities Tunis Cake.
I found this site and realised I was not alone in my quest.
I decided to email McVities and ask why they don't they make it anymore when there are so many people wanting their wonderful Tunis cake.
They actually emailed me back, wished me a happy new year and said me email was being forwarded to their Marketing Dept.
So Please, all of you, email McVities.
[EMAIL="mcvities.consumerservices@biscuits.com"]mcvities.consumerservices@biscuits.com[/EMAIL]
maybe this time next year we will see real Tunis Cake back in the Shops.

spiddy100

I' d never heard of Tunis cake before but my mother in law served one up on Christmas Day at teatime and it was lovely (bit chocolatey for me though :eek: ). I think she gets hers from a little bakers (they are near P ortsmouth if anyone wants me to find out where), it is a lovely madeira with ?apricot jam and chocolate about 1..5cm thick on top.

They also had a long talk about where tunis cake came from etc as my husband's grandfather was a grocer and used to sell them in his shop. Unfortunately I didn't remember any of what they said -sorry

Loobysaver

spiddy100 wrote: »

I' d never heard of Tunis cake before but my mother in law served one up on Christmas Day at teatime and it was lovely (bit chocolatey for me though :eek: ). I think she gets hers from a little bakers (they are near P ortsmouth if anyone wants me to find out where), it is a lovely madeira with ?apricot jam and chocolate about 1..5cm thick on top.

They also had a long talk about where tunis cake came from etc as my husband's grandfather was a grocer and used to sell them in his shop. Unfortunately I didn't remember any of what they said -sorry

I live near Portsmouth. If you could find out the name of the bakers that would be great:D

George_Bray

duchez wrote: »

I to search every year in vain for the McVities Tunis Cake. I found this site and realised I was not alone in my quest.
I decided to email McVities and ask why they don't they make it anymore when there are so many people wanting their wonderful Tunis cake.
They actually emailed me back, wished me a happy new year and said me email was being forwarded to their Marketing Dept.
So Please, all of you, email McVities.
[EMAIL="mcvities.consumerservices@biscuits.com"]mcvities.consumerservices@biscuits.com[/EMAIL]
maybe this time next year we will see real Tunis Cake back in the Shops.

It was a good idea of yours to email McVities but alas, I fear there's little hope. They just emailed me back and said:

"Thank you for contacting us concerning McVitie’s Tunis Cakes. We regret to advise you that these are unlikely to be manufactured again.....a longer manufactured product may ... be discontinued due to a falling off of popularity, resulting in it no longer being a viable product to produce."

Oh well, it was worth a try. Back to making my own each year...