(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).
Scone
Definition:
(n.) A cake, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Scottish argue that it was they who introduced the risen pancake (known north of the border as drop scones) to the Americas.
(2) He has all his mum’s and dad’s things there in Scone..
(3) Guests can choose from pancakes, eggs Benedict, homemade granola, fresh cinnamon rolls, sausage, “biscuits”, hash browns and scones.
(4) She plied contractors with scones to get the inside track on the construction process and can tell you how much each component part weighs.
(5) I'd like to say I tasted them first on some misty Irish moorland, or was fed them by grizzled crofters in the Scottish highlands (where they are known as tattie scones).
(6) These buttery potato scones glisten on my plate like Grecian tiles.
(7) The final technical challenge went, counter-intuitively, back to basics, asking the rivals to make miniature versions of three patisserie classics: sponge cake, tart au citron and scones.
(8) What you will notice is the very good coffee (from £1.65, supplied by local roasters, Bailies), the fantastic cakes and scones (around £1.80), and a reasonably priced menu of sandwiches, wraps and daily specials, such as red Thai vegetable curry.
(9) These simple but hearty scones are ideal for any time of day.
(10) Plates of scones and cakes appear, followed by pots of tea.
(11) On Christmas morning 1950, the Stone of Scone – crowning stone of the kings of Scotland since the 10th century – was stolen from beneath Westminster Abbey's coronation chair by an undergraduate brigade of Scottish nationalists and driven back to Scotland in the boot of a Ford Anglia.
(12) Two years after Starbucks stated publicly that it was committed to using 100% RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil) certified sustainable palm oil in products such as its raspberry chocolate chip scone and Mallorca sweet bread by 2015, customers are in the dark.
(13) Natalie's questionings are conducted in the manner of a weary supply teacher nagging for GCSE coursework, yet yield amazing rewards with criminals who tend to confess to both the relevant crime and then to any other old crimes knocking about: eating Shergar the racehorse, stealing the Stone of Scone or pissing in the Blue Peter pond.
(14) We don’t know what’s going on and how long it’s going to be.” The family were down to their last food supplies – a few scones, jam and some chocolates, all of which were intended as gifts for relatives.
(15) In Buenos Aires, the Richmond Salon- oak-panelled walls, chairs with red leather seats, extravagantly dripping candelabara - offers a straightforward 'Afternoon Tea' menu of biscuits, scones and toast with marmalade.
(16) Mel Giedroyc Did you send in some scones with the pitch?
(17) His last television appearance came as Mr Sniggs, the junior dean of Scone College, in Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall, starring Jack Whitehall.
(18) Nothing beats a whisky hangover like the uber-Scottish Tattie Stack – a pile of double potato scone and smoked bacon topped with Stornoway black pudding and a fried egg.
(19) Imagine, if you will, Crabb, her basket crammed with scones and jam, rapping on the security gates at Eddie Obeid’s sprawling residence and then exchanging witty repartee while he works the stoves.
(20) Yet the warmth of its welcome, the charm of its opulent rooms and period features and the quality of its celebrated breakfasts (and complimentary afternoon cakes and scones) make this a great place to stay.