Lest anyone should think that all I do is visit archives and join religious processions, please allow me to share one the other highlights of my Easter Weekend. One of my personal hobbies is to consume as many different varieties of "ethnic" British food as possible.
Presenting The Cadbury Easter Cake Selection Box:
Did you know Cadbury makes far more than just chocolate and cream eggs? I found this fine specimen, along with a variety of other Cadbury Easter cakes, at the local Waitrose. Say what you will about Waitrose, but I did not see these cakes at any of the other grocery stores. Unable to decide on a single variety, I purchased this assortment package.
Upon opening the box, I was pleasantly surprised to find the kind of map normally only found in Whitman's Samplers which helpfully identified the various sweetmeats. The assortment contains such delicacies as the "mini eggs nest cake," consisting of "chocolate flavoured sponge, layered with buttercream, covered in milk chocolate, decorated with milk chocolate curls and a milk chocolate egg in a crisp sugar shell."
Every variety was truly delicious, but, let's be perfectly clear, these "cakes" are much more closely related to Hostess cakes than they are to proper baked goods. The "mini rolls" cake is very clearly a member of the Ho Ho family and some of the other cakes appear to be more highly evolved species of Ding Dongs. Nevertheless, they are all superior to the average convenience store snack cake.
Speaking of which, why are there no American snack cakes here?
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