queen cake , auch: queencake

Patsy spoke absently as she greased the trays for the queen cakes with a scrap of butter paper.

It held a number of sausage rolls, some queen cakes and, wrapped in a piece of grease proof paper, a solitary chop.

The popular cookbook author Eliza Leslie suggests the use of red and green nonpareils for decorating a Queen cake, but strongly suggests white nonpareils are most suitable for pink icing on a pound cake in her 1828 Seventy-five Receipts for Pastries, Cakes and Sweetmeats.