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dropcake

dropcake 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 dropcake

pluraldropcakes

Questions about dropcake

What is dropcake the alternative form of?
Dropcake is the alternative form of drop cake.

Words near dropcake in the dictionary

  1. dropbacks
  2. dropbear
  3. dropbears
  4. dropbox
  5. dropboxes
  6. dropcake
  7. dropcakes
  8. dropcast
  9. dropcasting
  10. dropcloth
  11. dropcloths

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