Kendal Mint Cake is made from sugar, glucose, water and peppermint oil. Although the exact recipe and way of manufacturing mint cake is kept secret, it is known that it is created in the following way: There are numerous types of mint cake that are now available. Mint cake made with white sugar, mint cake made with brown sugar, and mint cake enrobed in chocolate are the three most popular varieties. Kendal Mint Cake has been used on many expeditions around the world as a source of energy; Kendal Mint Cake Kendal Mint Cake is a glucose-based confection flavoured with peppermint. It originates
Kendal cake, and as a producer of pipe tobacco and tobacco snuff. Its buildings, mostly constructed with the local grey limestone, have earned it the nickname Auld Grey Town. Kendal is listed in the Domesday Book as part of Yorkshire with the name Cherchebi. For many centuries it was called Kirkbie Kendal, meaning "village with a church in the valley of the River Kent". The earliest castle was a Norman motte and bailey (now located on the west side of the town) when the settlement went under the name of Kirkbie Strickland. A chartered market town, the centre of Kendal is