(n.) A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
(n.) A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
(n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
(n.) A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake.
(v. i.) To form into a cake, or mass.
(v. i.) To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
(v. i.) To cackle as a goose.
Example Sentences:
(1) "With hyperspectral imaging, you can tell the chemical content of a cake just by taking a photo of it.
(2) Okawa, who became the world's oldest person last June following the death at 116 of fellow Japanese Jiroemon Kimura , was given a cake with just three candles at her nursing home in Osaka – one for each figure in her age.
(3) The physical effects of chlorination as demonstrated by experiments with batters and cakes and by physicochemical observations of flour and its fractions are also considered.
(4) You’d be staggered by the number of dimwitted debutantes who stand for photos next to cakes iced with the famous double-C. You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life?
(5) About 35 million were egg-laying hens that provided 80% of the eggs for the breaker market – eggs broken then liquefied, dried or frozen to be used in processed foods like mayonnaise and pancake mixes, or sold to bakeries to make cakes, cookies and other products.
(6) On the programme, the bakes begin to become divorced from their function as food; they become symbols, like the cardboard cakes that were sometimes used at British weddings during the war when shortages ruled out the real thing.
(7) Layer Cake was credited as Craig’s audition for James Bond.
(8) There's squash and cake, and the atmosphere is a bit like a staff meeting, something the teenagers don't have much experience of.
(9) The Norwegian researchers looked at all the sources of caffeine ingested by the pregnant women, including coffee, tea and fizzy drinks, along with cakes and desserts containing cocoa (which has lots of caffeine).
(10) When it comes to Donald Trump, the cake is baked, and almost everything that happens – negative or positive – only serves to reinforce existing perceptions of the candidates.
(11) Female undergraduates (N = 50 and N = 46 in the two studies) were given cards containing the names of randomly-selected generic foods (e.g., cakes, melons) and were asked to "group the foods according to how you think about them when it comes to eating them".
(12) At stake: rice cakes, a gift basket, and a somewhat condescending hockey puck.
(13) In general, healthy panelists evaluated the cakes as sweeter, crust bitterness as greater, and overall eating quality as higher than the panel members with carbohydrate metabolic disorders.
(14) To make the ricotta cakes, separate the egg yolks from the whites, putting the whites into a bowl large enough to beat them in.
(15) But what started out as a simple, easy to collect tax – a low, flat rate imposed on most goods and services – has become increasingly complex, with exemptions for everything from children's clothes to Jaffa Cakes.
(16) Today, with published documents augmented by journalistic and academic research, we can see exactly how the Maastricht cake was baked.
(17) Percentage dry matter of the litter and a subjective evaluation of general litter conditions (moisture and caking) were scored weekly, with the percentage nitrogen and total quality of litter produced in each chamber measured at the conclusion of the study.
(18) Sensory evaluation indicated no significant differences (P less than 0.05) between the control and 10 per cent bran cakes for moistness, flavor, and overall acceptability.
(19) Bonus recipe: stress-free custard I was taught how to make this by Claire Ptak, who runs Violet Cakes in east London.
(20) At a recent rally in Dresden, Bachmann’s hometown, he told his followers that while asylum seekers enjoyed luxury accommodation, many impoverished German pensioners were “unable to even afford a single slice of Stollen” (German Christmas cake).
Frangipane
Definition:
(n.) A perfume of jasmine; frangipani.
(n.) A species of pastry, containing cream and almonds.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a Bakewell tart, but with coconut frangipane and lemon curd instead of the usual sponge and raspberry jam.
(2) Pipe the frangipane on to the curd in concentric rings.
(3) Ground finely, almonds give you that gloriously squidgy consistency in cakes, frangipane-filled tarts and marzipan.
(4) Serves 8–12 375g shortcrust pastry, rolled out 1 egg white, beaten For the frangipane 175g unsalted butter, at room temperature 175g caster sugar 4 eggs 85g desiccated coconut 90g ground almonds 1 tbsp flour Zest of 2 lemons For the filling 150g lemon curd 1 egg yolk For the icing 250g icing sugar 2 tbsp water 1 tbsp desiccated coconut Zest of half a lemon 1 Line a tart tin with pastry, pressing it into the grooves.
(5) But they're at the heart of baking, and for good reason: the almond's mellow flavour means that it can form the foundations of frangipane, flourless cakes, macaroons, pralines and marzipan, without overpowering other ingredients or leaving the recipe unpalatably rich.
(6) 2 For the frangipane, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bake Off creates a fairytale landscape of tottering choux towers, cheesecake tiers, lady fingers, sponges and macarons and frangipanes.
(8) For the viewer, an hour in the Bake Off tent is like peeping through the window into a charmed land of plenty: a fairytale landscape of tottering choux towers, charlotte russes filled with trembling expanses of bavarois, gingerbread houses and cheesecake tiers and lady fingers and sponges and macarons and frangipanes.
(9) Return to the oven for 30–35 minutes, or until the frangipane is golden and slightly wobbly.