Lolly Cake
If you've got malt biscuits, fruit puff lollies and desiccated coconut, you're most of the way to this dish: about 55 minutes of cooking across 6 steps. Below: the ingredients split into pantry staples and a quick shopping list, a built-in serving scaler, and the method in 6 steps.
You'll mainly reach for saucepan and pan. At easy difficulty across 6 steps, it's a good one for a busy evening.
What you'll need
Shopping list (3)
Pantry staples (you likely have these)
Diet: not verified. We could not confirm malt biscuits, fruit puff lollies from the ingredient list, so we make no dietary claim for this recipe.
Contains: Gluten Dairy
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How to make it
- Crush the malt biscuits to fine crumbs in a large bowl, then stir in the ground cinnamon.
- Chop the fruit puff lollies into small pieces and mix them through the biscuit crumbs.
- Melt the butter and condensed milk together in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring until smooth and warm but not boiling.
- Pour the warm butter mixture into the crumbs and stir thoroughly until everything is evenly coated and the mixture holds together when pressed.
- Tip the mixture onto a sheet of baking paper and, using the paper to help, shape and roll it firmly into a tight log about 5 cm thick.
- Roll the log in the desiccated coconut to coat the outside, then wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours until firm before slicing into rounds to serve.
You'll use: Saucepan · Pan
Ingredient substitutions
- Butter
- olive oil (¾ the amount) · coconut oil · margarine
- Milk
- any unsweetened plant milk · ½ cup evaporated milk + ½ cup water
Tips & common questions
How long does Lolly Cake take to make?
About 55 minutes from start to finish — an estimate based on the 6 steps and 6 ingredients. Times vary with your kitchen and how much prep you do ahead.
What can I use instead of butter?
Try olive oil (¾ the amount). See the substitutions section above for more swaps.
Can I scale this recipe up or down?
Yes — use the servings control above the ingredients and every quantity rescales automatically (fractions included). Cooking times stay roughly the same; very large batches may need a little longer.
Is Lolly Cake suitable for my diet?
We make no dietary claim for this recipe: at least one ingredient could not be resolved to a definite plant or animal source, so labelling it either way would be a guess. The full ingredient list is above.
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Adapted recipe — rewritten in our own wording from an open-licensed community cookbook, not yet independently kitchen-tested by Consomee. How we source, test & correct recipes.
Lolly Cake is adapted by Consomee from the Wikibooks Cookbook, rewritten in our own wording and used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo: Lolly cake (2792116118).jpg by brent simpson from Auckland, New Zealand/Aotearoa, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. We add the serving scaler, ingredient tools, timing and structure — how we source recipes.