A cake saturated with wine or spirit, stuck with almonds, and served with custard.
1806. Miss Mitford, in L’Estrange, Friendships Mary R. Mitford (1882), I. 10. We had … tipsey cake on one side, and grape tart on the other.
1845. J. C. Atkinson in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, II. No. 13. 134. Red gypsum, externally set as full of … dog’s-tooth crystals as a tipsy-cake with almonds.
1859. Habits of Gd. Society, xiii. 338. As indispensable an element of the ball-supper as trifle, tipsy-cake, and mayonnaise.
