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butter cake

butter cake noun: a cake in which one of the main ingredients is butter, along with sugar, eggs, flour, and leavening agents such as baking powder, similar to a pound cake.

Noun

butter cake (plural butter cakes)

  1. A cake in which one of the main ingredients is butter, along with sugar, eggs, flour, and leavening agents such as baking powder, similar to a pound cake.

Forms of butter cake

pluralbutter cakes

Questions about butter cake

What does butter cake mean?
Butter cake means a cake in which one of the main ingredients is butter, along with sugar, eggs, flour, and leavening agents such as baking powder, similar to a pound cake.
What part of speech is butter cake?
Butter cake is a noun.
What is the plural of butter cake?
The plural of butter cake is butter cakes.

Words near butter cake in the dictionary

  1. butter bomb
  2. butter bombs
  3. butter bread
  4. butter breads
  5. butter brickle
  6. butter cake
  7. butter cakes
  8. butter chicken
  9. butter clam
  10. butter clams
  11. butter cream

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