attributive. Designating sponge cakes or biscuits of a type associated with, or supposedly… a large sponge cake baked in a mould, typically round…

A very light sweet cake made with flour, eggs, and sugar. Also figurative.

Originally North American. A small, usually sweet sponge cake, baked in a cup-shaped container. Frequently with modifying word indicating the flavour…

a kind of sponge cake, originally eaten accompanying a glass of Madeira; cf. pound cake, n.

a sponge cake consisting of two layers of sponge sandwiched together with a jam filling. (The ingredients and style of presentation have not always…

Originally and chiefly North American. A type of distinctively light, pale-coloured sponge cake made without fat, using beaten egg white rather…

a cake made from two mixtures of contrasting colours, swirled together to produce a marbled effect; also in extended use.

A sponge cake; the mixture from which such a cake is made.

Any of various cakes; spec. (a) (originally and chiefly North American) a type of distinctively light, pale-coloured sponge made with beaten egg…

A type of cake made without fat, using beaten egg white rather than whole eggs, typically baked in a ring-shaped tin and having a distinctively…

a cake consisting of layers of sponge held together by a sweet filling, and usually iced; also figurative.

a sponge cake consisting of two halves sandwiched together with a filling; in earlier use, covered with custard and eaten as a pudding.

(more fully Lady Baltimore cake) a light-textured white layer cake, traditionally iced and with a filling containing pecans, dried fruit, etc.

a kind of cake which crumbles in the mouth.

= layer cake n. at layer, n. compounds.

= Victoria sandwich n.

A type of rich chocolate-flavoured sponge cake which is coloured red (usually with food dye) and typically layered with white icing made with cream…