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drop-cake

drop-cake is the alternative form of drop cake.

Meaning of drop cake

Noun

drop cake (countable and uncountable, plural drop cakes)

  1. A baked confection made by dropping sweet dough by spoonfuls onto a cooking sheet and baking.
    • For this reason, contrary to the effect in biscuits, the addition of more moisture to a drop cake results in a flatter cake.1922, Washington Platt, The Technical Side of Biscuit & Cake Baking, page 20

Forms of drop-cake

pluraldrop-cakes

Questions about drop-cake

What is drop-cake the alternative form of?
Drop-cake is the alternative form of drop cake.

Words near drop-cake in the dictionary

  1. drop-bears
  2. drop-box
  3. drop-boxes
  4. drop-by
  5. drop-bys
  6. drop-cake
  7. drop-cakes
  8. drop-call
  9. drop-called
  10. drop-calling
  11. drop-calls

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