What's the difference between cake and tart?

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).

Tart


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Sharp to the taste; acid; sour; as, a tart apple.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: Sharp; keen; severe; as, a tart reply; tart language; a tart rebuke.
  • (n.) A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) TARS-1 and TART-1 but not TARL-2 were transplantable into newborn syngeneic rats and nude mice.
  • (2) The portion of my sample prawn orzo was a modest but polished plate of food, the dense bisque and silky grains of pasta elegantly punctuated by small bursts of tart, sweet semi-dried tomato.
  • (3) Now it is time to add the sweet heart to your jam tart.
  • (4) This is a Bakewell tart, but with coconut frangipane and lemon curd instead of the usual sponge and raspberry jam.
  • (5) Ruth Joseph and Sarah Nathan's crumbly little almond and lemon tarts are the perfect example of its charms, to my mind – not too sweet, not too sour, just intensely, deliciously zesty.
  • (6) As the temperature of the tarts increases a race will start between the sag of melting fat and the drying of the structure-forming gluten network.
  • (7) Try the tartelette de chocolate e avelã (hazelnut and chocolate tart, £2), or the classic Portuguese pastel de nata (custard tart, same price).
  • (8) The recipe below is for 10 classic shortcrust pastry tarts but it can easily be modified.
  • (9) It turned out to be the worst, as it did for Troyano, whose tarts were also overdone and left Hollywood momentarily lost for words.
  • (10) From The Great British Bake Off: How to Bake (BBC Books, RRP £20) Mary Berry's tarte au citron Mary Berry's tarte au citron.
  • (11) Some outlets are supplied with supermarket castoffs, non-essential items such as bakewell tarts that haven’t sold, unusual flavours of yoghurt (lemon and coconut) that no one wants to buy.
  • (12) Take the train to Lisbon for custard tarts, rickety trams and the fantastic Oceanarium ( oceanario.pt ).
  • (13) That was the week when the Bake Off contestants were called on to make dainty biscuits and elaborate gingerbread concoctions, following previous showdowns over who could make the fluffiest muffins and the creamiest custard tarts.
  • (14) And they felt that baking said much about Britain and its regional quiddities, from Dundee cakes to bara brith to Bakewell tarts.
  • (15) Sip a pot of its Galway Cream Tea (€6.95) from antique bone china cups while also munching on melt-in-the-mouth feta cheese tart or gluten-free sweet treats such as beetroot and chocolate cake.
  • (16) You can throw tarts at the Queen of Hearts, help the Caterpillar smoke his hookah pipe, make Alice grow as big as a house and then shrink again.
  • (17) To create our shortcrust jam tarts, cut pastry circles that are a couple of centimetres bigger than the holes in the baking tray.
  • (18) He said the paper had a proper investigative role and had “many undiluted positives” despite its reputation as a “tarts and vicars” paper.
  • (19) "You little tart shells," says Paul to Ruby as if he didn't know how that would sound in the edit.
  • (20) Three HTLV-I infected rat cell lines (TARS-1, TART-1, TARL-2) did not express the HT462 antigen, although cells of these lines expressed other HTLV-I related antigens.

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