Picnic Cakes

“But I don’t mind some cake—seed-cake, if you have any.” “Lots!” Bilbo found himself answering, to his surprise; and he found himself scuttling off, too, to the cellar to fill a pint-beer mug, and then to a pantry to fetch two beautiful round seed-cakes which he had baked that afternoon for his after-supper morsel.”

These picnic cakes always remind me of this scene in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit; they are small, simple treats that can be wrapped up and slipped into a backpa