Comments on: A Natural History of Lolly Cake

By: Caiteepotatee

Caiteepotatee — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:21:42 +0000

I’m a Kiwi living in Melbourne and I’m just about to make Lolly cake for my son’s kindy christmas party tomorrow. I too have trouble finding the right ingredients so I’ve always used Banana Lollies in place of eskimos or fruit puffs. Instead of Malt I use plain Arrowroot biscuits and then add some cocoa to get a chocolate flavour. I roll the cake in sprinkles instead of coconut as the kids seem to go for that. In NZ years ago I used to be able to find plain chocolate biscuits to crush (pak n save I remember used to sell Snoopy ones which were great). But I can’t find them here.

By: Andrew Gallagher

Andrew Gallagher — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:55:43 +0000

Hi,
I am from Lollyworld, the lolly shop at Lawnton, Brisbane, Australia.
Yes we have New Zealanders in our shop raving about Lolly Cakes everyday.
The original Fruit Puffs ( I think it was made by Pascalls) are not available any more.
We do have a New Zealand substitute made by the brand Rainbow. They are the only Fruit Puffs I can find around, they are a little different to the original, a little denser and not as foamy.
When no Fruit Puffs were available in Australia the die hard fans used Eskimos (made by Pascalls) and broke them up to spread through the Lolly Cake mix.
New Zealanders have to be the most loyal customers to their home country foods.
We even have the Maggi Onion Soup in store and customers always remark why would soup be in a lolly store? Because it is used to make a dip and our New Zealand customers are fanatical about it.

By: Cec

Cec — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:33:10 +0000

I found this website today while looking for the recipe for Lolly Cake to make for all the Australians i work with. So armed with my list off to the confectionary warehouse at Hendra in Brisbane and found fruit puffs and malt biscuits – so now im just waiting on it to set so i can taste test it before i take it to work. I cant wait. Thanks for the recipe.

By: bob

bob — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:45:18 +0000

to all
snapdragon sweets and nuts at 442 colombo st christchurch nz sell fruit puffs will post anywhere for price
email them Info@snapdragonsweets.co.nz for a quote

By: Karly

Karly — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:10:51 +0000

Too my fellow Lolly Cake Lovers in Brisbane…
Fruit puffs are available at Confectionary Warehouse, Nudgee Rd, Hendra as well as the lollyshop at Lawnton (opposite train station). Best biscuits to use over here are the Paradise brand of Malt biscuits. Only catch is that you have to buy 2 packets as they are only packed as 200 grams.

By: Wendy Natta

Wendy Natta — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:52:50 +0000

Pams Brand also make and sell Fruit Puffs as well now – I bought mine from a Write Price Store (part of Foodstuffs) and the packet even has a recipe on the back as well.

By: Nicola

Nicola — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:00:46 +0000

Have just made a double batch for a work bake off. I used the caramel condensed milk – have tried this before & it is yummy! Am experimenting (I know, this could be dangerous!) by putting in some chocolate biscuits with the malt ones. We’ll have to see how it goes down, but it tasted good freshly mixed.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:58:32 +0000

lol @ lozzy the typical critical aussie, You haven’t even tried Lolly Cake yet your quick to judge, wait for it, she will start giving us grief about sheep next, but the aussies do seem to forget Australia does have a lot more sheep then us. Oh and I think if you do your research lil Miss Matilda you will find that us cleaver Kiwis did come up with the Pavlova and the anzac biscuits buy the sounds of things, check this link out if you detest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlova_(food)
Now that I’ve said my bit, i’m going to go make some lolly cake and eat some before the kids get ahold of it!

By: Alexia

Alexia — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:30:03 +0000

Hey proud kiwi

I have used pineapple lumps as a substitute – delicious but they’re far too hard for the cake. Everyone who tried it almost broke a tooth!

By: Dylan

Dylan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:17:43 +0000

Hmm, softer then a Clinker, harder then a Marshmellow…

What about those foamy, pastel coloured… things… you get in bags of lolly mix? They tend to appear around Christmas time, they’re in various shapes, they all taste the same, they resist biting at first then give in. They’re like lolly bananas but softer.

Think they sound about right?