The Original Melton Hunt Cake is a delicious rich quality fruit cake that is made to an exclusive time honoured recipe. It was in 1854 when John Dickinson first began to make this highly respected local delicacy. In all that time neither the recipe nor the method of baking has changed. The cake combines only the finest natural ingredients, of specially selected dried fruit, almonds, pure butter and fresh eggs enhanced with the distinctive flavour of old Jamaican rum.

As the name implies the cake was originally supplied to members of the Melton Hunt, whose custom was to take a slice of the cake together with a glass of sherry or “stirrup cup” whilst awaiting the start of the hunt. The cake soon gained acclaim throughout the shires being the perfect accompaniment to afternoon tea and enjoyed equally by nobility, clergy and gentlefolk of Melton as an after dinner dessert.

Today, at Dickinson & Morris we continue to produce The Melton Hunt Cake in our own bakery in Melton Mowbray at Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe on Nottingham Street, to our own secret recipe.

Often described as the original rich fruit cake against which all others are judged. Vine fruits, butter, eggs, muscavado sugar, almonds and rum