lolly cake
{{Short description|New Zealand cake}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=February 2025}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}{{Infobox prepared food
| name = Lolly cake
| image = Lolly cakes 20231119 140506 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Lolly cake slices for sale at Westfield Albany, Auckland
| alternate_name = Lolly log
| country = New Zealand
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| creator = 1940s
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| type = Cake or confection
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| main_ingredient = Malt biscuits, butter, sweetened condensed milk, fruit puff sweets (usually Explorer lollies)
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A lolly cake or lolly log is an unbaked New Zealand sweet dish that features lollies, (typically explorer candy or fruit puff sweets) as a key ingredient.{{cite book|last1=Cuthbert|first1=Pippa|last2=Wilson|first2=Lindsay Cameron|title=Cookies!|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kBv0R-Aqv80C&pg=PA87|access-date=22 December 2010|date=2007|publisher=New Holland Publishers|isbn=978-1-84537-681-9|page=87}}
Origins
The exact origins of lolly cake are unknown. Lolly cakes are known to have been consumed in the 1940s, but were not commonly available until the 1960s in supermarkets.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}} Lolly cake is similar to chocolate salami and fifteens.
Recipe
Traditionally, explorer lollies (known as eskimo lollies prior to March 2021 following the George Floyd protests){{Cite web|title=Pascall Eskimos lollies changes name to Kiwi-inspired 'Explorers' after racist undertones|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/pascall-eskimos-lollies-changes-name-to-kiwi-inspired-explorers-after-racist-undertones/3XLNFY67TTIA3574BRT35TN5SA/|access-date=2021-03-09|website=The New Zealand Herald |language=en-NZ}} or fruit puffs are used, which are like firm, but soft and chewy, marshmallows. They are added to the base mixture, which consists of crushed plain malt biscuits combined with melted butter and sweetened condensed milk.{{YouTube | id= xPy-hrDfuKQ | title= Cooking Time: Lolly Cake}} The mixture is usually pressed into a log shape and rolled in desiccated coconut, and then refrigerated until set and sliced.{{cite web|last1=Freeman|first1=Isaac|title=A Natural History of Lolly Cake|url=http://isaac.freeman.org.nz/a-natural-history-of-lolly-cake|access-date=13 February 2023|location=Christchurch, New Zealand | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208153249/http://isaac.freeman.org.nz/a-natural-history-of-lolly-cake |archive-date=8 February 2013 }} Other ingredients can be added or substituted.
== Availability ==
Lolly cakes can be found in most New Zealand supermarkets, bakeries and some dairies and petrol stations. In July 2021, Canterbury cookie company Cookie Time introduced a lolly cake biscuit in supermarkets and other retailers. Night 'n Day was the first retailer to sell it.{{cite news |title='Best thing invented': Cookie Time releases colab of Kiwi classics – the Lolly Cake cookie |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/best-thing-invented-cookie-time-releases-colab-of-kiwi-classics-the-lolly-cake-cookie/P6SFMUAFBCVRVQ7RA3KNIIRAII/ |agency=New Zealand Herald |publisher=New Zealand Media and Entertainment |date=27 July 2021}}
Gallery
Lolly cake (2792116118).jpg|Sliced lolly cake, with a coconut coating
Cinammon crinkle Melting moment Lolly cake Nosh cafe Waimate.jpg|A selection of café cakes including lolly cake from Waimate
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