A sponge cake saturated with wine or spirits, typically served with custard.
〈英〉酒味蛋糕（浸透葡萄酒或烈酒的松蛋糕，多与蛋奶糕一同呈上桌）
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For extra tipsy cakes try feeding it tsps of extra alcohol through small holes in the top of the cake.
Norma has developed a special trifle for Thanksgiving dinner that could truly be called a tipsy cake.
There are several recipes for tipsy cake, but the first one below is the only one I could find that called for Jack Daniels whiskey by name.
You would soon discover this dish was based on Victorian-era moulded creams which were based on Colonial-era tipsy cakes which were inspired by Renaissance-era trifles.
Moulded biscuits like this frequently formed the basis of tipsy cake, a Victorian favourite.