Comments for Bring Back Kunzle Showboats

Comment on take note of this site and bring them back by Bunty

Bunty — Tue, 18 May 2010 15:08:56 +0000

So glad to find that I am not alone! I have talked about Kunzle cakes to most people I know and nobody else remembers them! I even tried asking in Waitrose a few times as I had heard they had resurrected them, but to no avail! I loved them. They were a special treat and I think we used to get them from a bakers’ van that delivered house to house. I too used to lick out the filling and save the chocolate case until last. Please, please someone bring them back.

Comment on About by jane

jane — Fri, 14 May 2010 18:55:52 +0000

kunzel cakes, my grandmother used to serve them as an afternoon tea time treat.
they were a marvellously exotic and special treat for us as children.
i am 48 now, so it has been many decades since i tasted one, but i can remember it as if was yesterday.
please will someone not revive this treat. so much nicer than anything available now.

Comment on About by P Westerman

P Westerman — Thu, 13 May 2010 13:16:33 +0000

I’m just coming up to 40 years of age and remember with great affection, as does my Mum, the fantastic Kunzel cakes. As a child my Grampy used to bring them for my brother and I as a treat, and they certainly were. We long for them to be brought back. My husband on the other hand has no recollection of these little marvels! Did he miss out or what. So come on someone please get them back into production.

Comment on About by Brian

Brian — Sun, 09 May 2010 13:33:33 +0000

I remember these “cakes” from around 1961, my parents had a grocers store in a place called Tyldesley (near Leigh). I recall the “cakes” were wrapped individually and were displayed in a display box on the shop counter. The shop was on Shuttle Street and sadly was demolished some years ago.I was eating some chocolates made by Thorntons this morning. The chocolates reminded me of the Kunzle cakes. I mentioned it to my wife, she did a “Google” search………and hence my recollection. It’s a pity that whoever has the recipe does not market them again.

Comment on What about Jap cakes? by Bran Norman

Bran Norman — Sat, 08 May 2010 16:04:01 +0000

I was tempted to buy an ‘Opera’ the other day, hoping it was really a Jap in disguise. How wrong could I be? I’ve made a note of all the places that make them. Thanks for this website.

Comment on About by Captain Jon

Captain Jon — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:24:44 +0000

Continued good luck!

Comment on About by S Buuckmaster

S Buuckmaster — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:12:49 +0000

I don’t remember the showboats – must have been too expensive for my mum. I knew Kunzel Cakes as having a coconut creamy base with very thick chocolate topping, in boxes of six from Fine Fare supermarket. They were to die for as I recall, and my childhood ambition was to have a box to myself! A secondary joy was the abundance of paper cases the cakes were in, 36 was my record for one cake. BRING THEM BACK, or at least a recipe!!!

Comment on About by Melanie Griffin

Melanie Griffin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:47:32 +0000

My sister and I were remembering the some of our best childhood memories and kunzel cakes at granny’s featured very prominently;|Not one of Lyons best decisions to let those go! We talk about those teatimes so fondly all my friends and children want to know where they can find a kunzel cake now. My favorite one was topped with yellow icing and chocolat wiggly lines with a chocolate button in the middle. Mmmmm halcyon days!

Comment on About by Louise Crankshaw

Louise Crankshaw — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:58:21 +0000

I remember my mum giving me pocket money & I would go to the local shop and buy the chocolate & white Kunzel cale. Didn’t like the strawberry or orange ones!
They were absolutely lovely. I am 50 now and I have not even found a recipe to make similar. Any idea’s. I have spoken to many people over the years about these cakes and all said they would love to buy them again.
Can’t believe no company has taken up the idea and make them. Especially as people love the fancy cake industry now.

Comment on What about Jap cakes? by Sheila Higgins

Sheila Higgins — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:26:03 +0000

What a relief to find this website! I really thought I was going mad as nobody I asked semed to know what jap cakes were. They are a fond childhood memory of mine and my grandma used to make them. I shall try the recipe and the next time I’m up in “God’s own land” I shall hunt around those shops!