An Arctic roll is a British ice cream cake made of vanilla ice cream wrapped in a thin layer of sponge cake to form a roll, with a layer of raspberry flavoured sauce between the sponge and the ice cream.[1]
History
The dessert was invented in the 1950s by Ernest Velden, an immigrant from then Czechoslovakia.[2] He set up a factory in Eastbourne producing Arctic Roll in 1958, and the dessert soon became a successful product.[2] During the 1980s, more than 25 mi of Birds Eye Arctic Roll[3] were sold each month.[2][4]