What's the difference between cake and pastry?

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).

Pastry


Definition:

  • (n.) The place where pastry is made.
  • (n.) Articles of food made of paste, or having a crust made of paste, as pies, tarts, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Donors ate a typical Israeli breakfast of salad, cheese, yoghurt and pastries.
  • (2) Place on a large baking tray and fold over the edges to give a 1cm pastry border.
  • (3) Filo pastry contains very little fat itself but relies on fat being added later in between incredibly fine sheets, allowing them to separate during cooking, and so shatter in the mouth into fine delicate shards.
  • (4) 3 Once chilled, line the pastry with crumpled baking parchment and then with baking beans or dried pulses and bake blind for 15 mins.
  • (5) Gently fold the pastry surrounding the tin base inwards so it is on the base.
  • (6) BBQ Champ, which will be hosted by Adam Richman, the American presenter of cult TV hit Man V Food, will feature Bake Off-style challenges but swaps pastries and cupcakes for burgers and kebabs.
  • (7) What I enjoy doing is teaching people how to make pastry, and it really is easy, so I would like to share some of what I know,” she said.
  • (8) The recipe below is for 10 classic shortcrust pastry tarts but it can easily be modified.
  • (9) There is a big choice of salads at lunch and brunch is served at the weekend, but the best plan is to enjoy afternoon tea – with a dozen different brews to choose from, accompanied by freshly-baked pastries.
  • (10) This handling range is particularly important for laminated pastries, such as filo, which require layers of solid fat.
  • (11) 8.47pm BST Frances is wrapping little pastry horns around tiny steel cones.
  • (12) This air then expands on heating, giving height to your pastry.
  • (13) His light touch with pastry and flair for eclairs – always baked with a signature pencil perched behind his ear – have won over the hearts and tastebuds of the Great British Bake Off judges.
  • (14) 6 Pour the custard mix into the pastry case, then grate the nutmeg on top (do not use ready-ground nutmeg).
  • (15) During the last feast, Mustafa generously took the time to prepare over 30 plates of pastries for his fellow detainees.
  • (16) On paper, the main difference between puff and shortcrust pastry appears to be the fat content.
  • (17) Roll out the pastry thinly, and line the prepared tin with it.
  • (18) Line the tin with the pastry, pressing into the fluted edges of the tin.
  • (19) Feed consumed by rats fed with the corresponding commercial pastries was low except in date bars group.
  • (20) He was once an extravagant cook, a person who made pastry and boeuf bourguignon.