Majolo

I don't really remember the first time I had a Tunnocks tea cake. I do however remember that they always seemed to make appearances at friends birthday parties when I was younger.

I love everything about them. The red and silver foil wrapper is so familiar and so striking. It has a lovely graphical quality about it which is why I think so many designers have used the design to go on anything from bags, cushions, t-shirts, and art prints. Gillian Kyle for example stocks a fantastic range of items all bearing the famous red stripes. I've got my eye on a funky mug for my brew.

The Tunnocks tea cake consists of a small round shortbread biscuit covered with a dome of a whipped egg white concoction similar to marshmallow. The unmistakable filling is different to other tea cakes you can buy because it uses an egg white base rather than gelatine. To me, it's like a little blob of happiness wrapped up in a light coat of milk chocolate. Marks and Spencers do their own version, but I find the marshmallow bit on theirs to be a bit too foamy.

• Individual Tunnocks tea cake in foil
• Tunnocks tea cake with marshmallow

Once I found the dark chocolate ones in a John Lewis in Kingston - sometimes though, I feel that it was just a surreal dream I had, because I have never seen a packet of them in the shops since.