cake
- noun
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A sweet food made from flour, sugar, eggs and fat, baked in an oven and often covered with cream or icing.
We lit twelve candles on the cake before she came in.
There is still some cake left from yesterday, if you want.
The recipe says to let the cake cool before icing it.
He cut the cake into eight slices with a wet knife.
Common collocations: birthday cake · bake a cake · a slice of cake · chocolate cake · cake tin · a piece of cake
Part of: Sweets, Bread and grains, Cooking