chocolate teacake

English

classic chocolate teacake

Pronunciation

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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.

   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  […]

Translations

type of treat

• Arabic: رَأْس الْعَبْد m (raʔs al-ʕabd), كْرِيمْبُو m (krīmbū)
• Danish: flødebolle (da)
• Dutch: chocozoen m, chocoladezoen m, schuimzoen m, negerzoen (nl) m
• Finnish: suukko (fi)
• French: tête de nègre (fr) f (dated), tête choco f, tête au choco f, whippet (fr) m
• German: Schokokuss (de) m, Schaumkuss (de) m, Negerkuss (de) m, Mohrenkopf (de) m
• Hebrew: קְרֶמְבּוֹ (he) (krembo)
• Portuguese: teta de nega (pt) f, bomboca f, dan-top m, nhá-benta f
• Russian: no equivalent term in Russian, but see суфле́ в шокола́де n (suflé v šokoláde) (as which the industrial versions of European countries are traded; sometimes denotes a similar confection or a kind of tart instead), кре́мбо (ru) n (krémbo) (understood as Jewish cuisine), шокола́дный поцелу́й m (šokoládnyj pocelúj) (ambiguous, often a tart), поцелу́й не́гра m (pocelúj négra) (ambiguous, often a tart)