Kendal Mint Cake Kendal Mint Cake Kendal Mint Cake is a glucose-based confection flavoured with peppermint. It originates from Kendal in Cumbria, England. Kendal Mint Cake is popular among climbers and mountaineers, especially those from the United Kingdom, as a source of energy. Kendal Mint Cake is based on a traditional recipe known as "mint cake", "peppermint tablet," and various other names. There are currently two companies that still produce Kendal Mint Cake. The origin of the cake is allegedly the result of a batch of glacier mint sweets that went wrong. In 1869 Joseph Wiper, who married into the Thompson family of
Blue cake the time during which the dough is allowed to rest before baking (up to two days) and the baking temperature and heat all vary. Blue cake is eaten as a snack with cheese and meat or at breakfast with coffee, butter and jam. It has a light and buttery taste. The cake is mostly appreciated by Frutig Valley residents and is virtually unknown among visitors and outside the valley. Blue cake Blue cake () is a flaky pastry that is a specialty of the Frutig valley (the lower part of the Kander valley consisting of the municipalities of Aeschi, Reichenbach,