Frog cake 2001 the frog cake was listed as a South Australian Heritage Icon by the National Trust of South Australia. The frog cake is a small dessert shaped to resemble a frog with its mouth open, consisting of a sponge base with a jam centre, topped in artificial cream and covered with a thick layer of fondant icing. The recipe today remains identical to the one employed when the cake was first produced in the 1920s. When manufactured, large layers of sponge cake are combined and cut mechanically into shape, covered in the fondant, and the mouth is then formed with
Red velvet cake of this cake is attributed by some to the film "Steel Magnolias" (1989), which included a red velvet groom's cake made in the shape of an armadillo. Magnolia Bakery in Manhattan has served it since its opening in 1996, as did restaurants known for their Southern cooking like Amy Ruth's in Harlem, which opened in 1998. In 2000, Cake Man Raven opened one of the first bakeries devoted to the cake in Brooklyn. Ingredient changes vary based on the era and area of the world. James Beard's reference, "American Cookery" (1972), describes three red velvet cakes varying in the amounts