What's the difference between cake and pancake?

Cake


Definition:

  • (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).

Pancake


Definition:

  • (n.) A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) This astrocyte precursor labels with the monoclonal antibody A2B5, is highly migratory, proliferates in response to serum and platelet-derived growth factor, and differentiates into process-bearing astrocytes, many of which subsequently assume a "pancake"-shaped morphology.
  • (3) The Scottish argue that it was they who introduced the risen pancake (known north of the border as drop scones) to the Americas.
  • (4) Guests can choose from pancakes, eggs Benedict, homemade granola, fresh cinnamon rolls, sausage, “biscuits”, hash browns and scones.
  • (5) Now place a tablespoon of pani pol into the pancake, and roll it up, folding in the sides.
  • (6) "They are like a series of interconnected pancakes," said Casey Walther, a water expert who was a consultant with Unesco on the project, and now works with Gachet.
  • (7) They are part of a family of Irish potato breads and pancakes which include boxty, potato fadge and stampy.
  • (8) When it comes to cooking okonomiyaki, there are two styles – "Hiroshima style", where the plain pancake is grilled, then topped with the chosen cooked ingredients, or "Osaka style", where all the ingredients are mixed into the batter, then cooked more like a frittata.
  • (9) Most Malaysians buy their popiah skins ready-made, but it's perfectly acceptable for home cooks to use an egg-based pancake mixture.
  • (10) Two subtypes of astrocytes, pancake and stellate, were differentiated morphologically.
  • (11) The fiber-dimensional hygrometer yielded mean aw values and precision estimates that did not differ significantly from those obtained with the electrical hygrometers for (NH4)2SO4slush, KNO3 slush, sweetened condensed milk, pancake syrup, and cheese spread.
  • (12) Buildings are battered and pockmarked or floors pancaked on top of each other.
  • (13) I was one of the session musicians and when I got to the studio a pasty, 98lb, orange-haired man covered in white pancake makeup came through the door.
  • (14) To make the pancakes, use a non-stick pan or cured cast-iron pan, and lightly apply some vegetable oil to the pan with a tissue.
  • (15) If Tony Abbott was here, facing the situation we are facing now, what kind of an answer would he expect from me as prime minister of Australia?” Tong said that Abbott should visit Kiribati, a nation of 102,000 people living on 33 mostly pancake-flat coral atolls, to witness the potential damage that climate change will cause.
  • (16) Ruth Joseph and Sarah Nathan, Cardiff, veggischmooze.blogspot.com Makes 10 blintzes 200g plain flour A pinch of salt 50g butter or margarine, melted 25ml olive oil 400ml milk 2 organic free-range eggs A little oil, to fry Icing sugar and sour cream, to serve For the filling 300g soft cheese 15g vanilla sugar Grated zest of ½ lemon 1-2 tbsp lemon juice, to taste Pinch of salt 50g chopped raisins or dried fruit (optional) Icing sugar and sour cream to serve 1 Put all the pancake ingredients apart from the oil and filling in a food processor and whizz.
  • (17) When it comes to the all-important flipping stage, Lanlard tends to lose his nerve: he uses a palette knife instead, thereby forfeiting his chance to make a wish when the airborne pancake is caught in the pan.
  • (18) The result is a decadent pancake that has the syrupy sweetness associated with gulab jamun , jangiri and other Indian sweets.
  • (19) Okonomiyaki – Japanese vegetable pancakes Okonomiyaki stands for "as you like it" – perfect for Shrove Tuesday when you could change that to "whatever you have" if you want to follow tradition and use up your stocks.
  • (20) Whole wheat breads, pumpernickel bread, and pancakes from mix constituted a grain subgroup with highest nutrient content, lowest cholesterol and sugar, lower fat, and higher sodium.