Queen Elizabeth cake

Queen Elizabeth cake is a lightly sweet, moist, and low-fat date cake, topped with a brown sugar, butter and broiled coconut mixture.

Despite its unsettled origin, the dessert gained national popularity in the 1950s and remains a Canadian staple.

[1] Queen Elizabeth cake is a dessert cake prepared with sugar, flour, dates, eggs, and butter, and topped with a sugary icing infused with shredded coconut.

[6] The dates used are chopped,[7] and give the cake a dark coloration.

[5] During this time, food rationing still existed in Great Britain, and a cake with few ingredients was in order.