Walker's Glenfiddich Whisky Cake - 400g

In Britain a whisky cake sits somewhere between the cake stand and the drinks cabinet. It is a grown-up cake, the sort brought out when visitors arrive, cut at the kitchen table and wrapped back up with great ceremony once everyone has had their share.

People in Canada go looking for it because it was the cake an aunt always had in, or the present picked up on a trip home that never quite got replaced. The name on the box does half the remembering for you.

It comes as a single boxed 400g cake, which goes further than you would think if everyone behaves. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, check the box for how best to keep it once it is open, and cut it as thick or as thin as the company deserves. It is good on its own and better with a pot of tea.

It sits happily next to a box of shortbread and a proper strong tea, and it makes an easy present for someone who misses home: no recipe, no assembly, just a knife and a plate.