| 单词 | cake |
| 释义 | cake (once / 218 pages) 1n 2n 3n 4v A cake is a baked dessert that's often topped with frosting or decorations. For many people, it's not a proper birthday without a birthday cake. Most cakes are made with flour, fat, a sweetener, and something to make the cake rise — like eggs or baking powder. You might prefer denser, richer cheesecakes or tiny, delicate cupcakes, or even a savory version made of potatoes and vegetables. If someone says, "Well, that takes the cake," they're expressing their surprise at something, and if you say, "That exam was a piece of cake," it as easy as eating a piece of cake. WORD FAMILYcake: caked, cakes, caking USAGE EXAMPLESSweet cakes and breads will be avoided because you grew up without them. New York Times(Oct 18, 2016) Only there does he discover that his face is caked with blood and that there is a long, gaping laceration on his right temple. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) At a recent celebration, friends used one cake to congratulate Bill Word on his retirement and compliment Matt Word on his new job. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 n baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat 2Hypo|Hyper applesauce cake moist spicy cake containing applesauce babaa small cake leavened with yeast birthday cakedecorated cake served at a birthday party cheesecakemade with sweetened cream cheese and eggs and cream baked in a crumb crust chiffon cakevery light cake chocolate cakecake containing chocolate coconut cakecake containing shredded coconut in batter and frosting coffee cake, coffeecakea cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee crumb cakecake or coffeecake topped with a mixture of sugar and butter and flour crumpeta thick soft cake with a porous texture; cooked on a griddle cupcakesmall cake baked in a muffin tin Eccles cakea flat round cake of sweetened pastry filled with dried fruit fruitcakea rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on gateauany of various rich and elaborate cakes sponge cakea light porous cake made with eggs and flour and sugar without shortening bridecake, wedding cakea rich cake with two or more tiers and covered with frosting and decorations; served at a wedding reception white cakecake made without egg yolks spice cakecake flavored with spices gingerbreadcake flavored with ginger pound cakerich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flour layer cakecake having layers held together by a sweet filling and usually covered with frosting torterich cake usually covered with cream and fruit or nuts; originated in Austria petit foursmall (individual) frosted and ornamented cake prune cakemoist cake containing prunes that have been made into a puree jumbal, jumblesmall flat ring-shaped cake or cookie savarina sponge cake baked in a ring mold Boston cream pielayer cake filled with custard skillet cake, upside-down cakebatter baked atop a layer of sweetened fruit then turned upside down so fruit is on top honey cakea spicy cake partially sweetened with honey marble cakemade of light and dark batter very lightly blended genoiserich and delicate Italian sponge cake seed cake, seedcakea sweet cake flavored with sesame or caraway seeds and lemon teacakeany of various small cakes or cookies often served with tea biscuit, cookie, cookyany of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term) friedcakesmall cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat battercake, flannel cake, flannel-cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancakea flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle wafflepancake batter baked in a waffle iron rock cakea small cake with a hard surface said to resemble a rock Victoria sandwich, Victoria spongea cake consisting of two layers of sponge cake with a jelly filling in between baba au rhum, rum babaa baba soaked in rum babkaa coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds devil's food, devil's food cakevery dark chocolate cake Christmas cakea rich fruitcake (usually covered with icing and marzipan) and eaten at Christmas simnela fruitcake (sometimes covered with almond paste) eaten at mid-Lent or Easter or Christmas angel cake, angel food cakea light sponge cake made without egg yolks Swiss roll, jellyrollthin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up to make a cylindrical cake Madeira cake, Madeira spongea rich sponge cake with close texture; intended to be eaten with a glass of Madeira wine Twinkiea small sponge cake with a synthetic cream filling tea biscuit, teacakeflat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea Sally Lunna flat round slightly sweet teacake usually served hot dog biscuita hard biscuit for dogs butter cookiecookie containing much butter spice cookiecookie flavored with spices almond cookie, almond crescentvery rich cookie containing ground almonds; usually crescent-shaped browniesquare or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts ginger nut, ginger snap, gingersnap, snapa crisp round cookie flavored with ginger macaroonchewy cookie usually containing almond paste kissa cookie made of egg whites and sugar ladyfingersmall finger-shaped sponge cake anise cookiecookie made without butter and flavored with anise seed molasses cookievery spicy cookies sweetened partially with molasses oreo, oreo cookiechocolate cookie with white cream filling raisin-nut cookiecookie filled with a paste of raisins and nuts refrigerator cookiedough formed into a roll and chilled in the refrigerator then sliced and baked raisin cookiecookie containing raisins fruit barcookies containing chopped fruits either mixed in the dough or spread between layers of dough then baked and cut in bars sugar cookiecookies sprinkled with granulated sugar oatmeal cookiecookies containing rolled oats Toll House cookie, chocolate chip cookiecookies containing chocolate chips fortune cookiethin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper gingerbread mangingerbread cut in the shape of a person doughboya rounded lump of dough that is deep-fried and served as hot bread donut, doughnut, sinkera small ring-shaped friedcake cruller, twistersmall friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts French fritter, beigneta deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar frittersmall quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables buckwheat cakea pancake made with buckwheat flour buttermilk pancakea pancake made with buttermilk blini, blinyRussian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream blintz, blintze(Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked French pancake, crape, crepesmall very thin pancake german pancake, pfannkuchenpuffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce latke, potato pancakemade of grated potato and egg with a little flour Belgian wafflethick sweet waffle often eaten with ice cream or fruit sauce coffee ringring-shaped coffeecake with fruits or nuts and often iced wafera small thin crisp cake or cookie granola barcookie bar made of granola tortillathin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour baked goods foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven n a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax) 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper bar tablet a small flat compressed cake of some substance block a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides) n small flat mass of chopped food 4Syn|Hypo|Hyper patty fish ball, fish cake a fried ball or patty of flaked fish and mashed potatoes codfish ball, codfish cakeusually made of flaked salt cod and mashed potatoes dish a particular item of prepared food v form a coat over Syn|Hyper coat cover, spread over form a cover over |
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