fern cake

plural fern cakes

1. A Scottish confection consisting of a small round iced cake with a chocolate fern traced on top.

   The last fern cake, and you hid it, you deceitful girl!

   1978, Mary Burg Whitcomb, Tee-Bo in the Great Hort Hunt, page 68

   2 more examples

   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.

   1998, Robert L. Aitken, Not Many Noble: A Story of the Lanarkshire Coalfield, page 210

   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.

   2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 378