Can you still get Kunzle cakes?
Unlike a 1966 car, examples of which you may still encounter, you will not find any 1960’s Kunzle cakes, and even if you did and were allowed to eat them, they’d not taste like they did in 1966. Short of time travel all that is available is someone’s idea of what the cakes were like.
What happened to Kunzle cakes?
The shops were sold off but the factory continued to makes cakes into the 1970’s employing up to 700 people. In 1964 it was taken over by Fullers, in June 1968 that business was aquired by Scrivens Kemp and then they too were taken over in by Lyons in Novemeber 1968. Its been demolished! Thank you BCC !
What were Kunzle cakes?
They consisted of small chocolate-shells which were filled with sponge cake, topped with butter cream, then piped and decorated by hand. The cakes were then individually wrapped and packed in boxes of six or twenty-four.
Where is Tunis cake from?
The origins of the cake are Edwardian. Scottish bakery Macfarlane Langs produced commercial Tunis Cakes in the 1930s, and when they merged with McVitie & Price in 1948 to form a company called United Biscuits (which still owns the McVitie’s brand) the recipe passed to the new company.
Who was C Kunzle and what did he do?
The firm of C. Kunzle Ltd was started in the early twenties by Christian Kunzle, a Swiss chef, who worked for a time at the House of Commons, Westminster. He opened a number of restaurants in and around Birmingham and the factory was established to supply cakes and pastry to these restaurants and later, to agencies.
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Are there any Kunzle cakes from the 1960’s?
Unlike a 1966 car, examples of which you may still encounter, you will not find any 1960’s Kunzle cakes, and even if you did and were allowed to eat them, they’d not taste like they did in 1966. Short of time travel all that is available is someone’s idea of what the cakes were like.
When did the kunzles move to Snow Hill?
Ever the entrepreneur he saw an opportunity and returned to Switzerland to raise capital. He then came back to England and established a small business in a flourishing City of Birmingham. He established a bake house in Snow Hill in 1902 and then opened a shop in the Midland Arcade.
