chocolate teacake

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Noun

chocolate teacake (plural chocolate teacakes)

  1. A confection consisting of a biscuit base topped with marshmallow-like filling and coated in a hard shell of chocolate.
    Synonym: (offensive, proscribed; mainly in European countries) niggerball
    Hyponym: krembo
    • 2010 May 15, Nicola Humble, Cake: A Global History, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 29:
      […] three years later, Marks & Spencer mounted a similar case over their chocolate teacakes (a mound of marshmallow on a chocolate biscuit, covered in milk chocolate) which they took all the way to the European Court of Justice.
    • 2020 August 20, A. Naji Bakhti, Between Beirut and the Moon, Influx Press, →ISBN:
      Ras El Abed is a cheap, Lebanese variation on the chocolate teacake. It is a chocolate covered, cream filled treat that has been popular among generations of Lebanese children since the fifties. The actual meaning of Ras El Abed is 'head of a slave' and  […]

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