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drop cake

drop cake noun: a baked confection made by dropping sweet dough by spoonfuls onto a cooking sheet and baking.

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
    • Drop cakes require a little more time than cookies.1924, Woman's Institute Library of Cookery

Forms of drop cake

pluraldrop cakes
alternative formdropcake
alternative formdrop-cake

Origin of drop cake

From the way the dough is dropped onto cooking sheets for baking.

Questions about drop cake

What does drop cake mean?
Drop cake means a baked confection made by dropping sweet dough by spoonfuls onto a cooking sheet and baking.
What part of speech is drop cake?
Drop cake is a noun.
What is the plural of drop cake?
The plural of drop cake is drop cakes.

Words near drop cake in the dictionary

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

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