Comments on: Kunzle Showboats

By: Sandra

Sandra — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:09:31 +0000

I too remember these gorgeous little cakes that looked almost too good to eat. They were little works of art. And that seems to be why they are no longer produced. The rising price of chocolate and the fact that they were hand filled and finished, made them far too expensive to produce. They could not find a way of making a machine which could mass produced them, so sadly they just stopped making them. Personally I would be willing to pay the premium price to have them back in my life again. They really were something special. A proper teatime treat.

By: cerise tyson

cerise tyson — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:49:06 +0000

I am always telling my kids about Kunzle cakes – they made my childhood magic – I loved them soooooo much. I am so happy they were not just a figment of my imagination and that others appreciated and loved them as well !

By: Lindsay Cockshott

Lindsay Cockshott — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:19:39 +0000

I remember having them as a child when we were on holiday in cornwall where we would eat them on the beach with our picnic! My favourite was the hexagonal one which I seem to remember had a yellow top and a chocolate button in the centre! Not many people I speak to now remember them but they were delicious. A chocolatiers near where I live makes them himself but they are expensive. Even if they only brought them out at Easter or special occasions I would love to try one again – so many happy childhood memories – my brother and I arguing over who should have which!

By: Lynne

Lynne — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:33:50 +0000

I have wondered what happened to Kunzles for years, whenever I mentioned them to people they had never heard of them! I was beginning to think I had imagined them in my childhood, please Lyons….bring them back.

By: A WESTERN

A WESTERN — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:46:33 +0000

Kunzle cakes/Lyons showboats….mmmmmmmmmmm
I would give anything to see them back in the shops, I don’t have erotic dreams, just dreams of those wonderfully delicious cakes. There have never been anything else that are even remotely as luscious as them. Please bring them back…please please please!!!!!!!!

By: neal

neal — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:55:41 +0000

Those showboats were beautiful,and my favorite cakes. They seem to have disappeared around 1979 and i remember around that time i wrote to lyons and did get a reply saying they were too expensive to produce. I only remember them in boxes of 4s and 6s though, not 12s. I remember the advert on tv for them as well which ran sometime in the 1970s. I wish they would be reintroduced,and have done for years.

By: Lally

Lally — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 06:22:00 +0000

Kunzle showboats were wonderful. Evening suppertimes with a kunzle showboats, we all used to fight over the best one. Bring em back NOW