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pound cake

pound cake noun: a dense yellow cake, the traditional recipe for which consists of equal quantities (nominally one pound) of butter, eggs, flour, and sugar.

Noun

pound cake (countable and uncountable, plural pound cakes)

  1. (US) A dense yellow cake, the traditional recipe for which consists of equal quantities (nominally one pound) of butter, eggs, flour, and sugar.
    • But when I got to Anita Bryant′s pound cake, I stopped looking. Her recipe is my favorite so far. The cream isn′t quite authentic—real pound cakes are supposed to contain only butter, sugar, eggs and flour—but it does make the cake′s texture meltier.1993, Ann Hodgman, Beat This! Cookbook, published 1999, page 166
    • Pound cakes, butter cakes with a tender fine crumb, are English in origin. In the 1700s and 1800s, the basic cake formula was based on the pound cake—butter, sugar, flour, and eggs in equal proportions by weight, with no chemical leavening added.2002, Greg Patent, Baking in America, page 159
  2. (slang) A term of attraction or desire.
    • She's a cute little pound cake.
  3. (slang) A butt cheek.

pound cake meaning in Persian

pound cake in Persian

dense yellow cake made from equal quantities of butter, eggs, flour and sugar
کیک پوند keyk pund

Forms of pound cake

pluralpound cakes
alternative formpoundcake

Origin of pound cake

From pound (“unit of weight”) + cake.

Questions about pound cake

What does pound cake mean?
Pound cake means a dense yellow cake, the traditional recipe for which consists of equal quantities (nominally one pound) of butter, eggs, flour, and sugar.
What is pound cake in Persian?
Pound cake in Persian is کیک پوند (keyk pund). See Pound cake meaning in Persian.
What part of speech is pound cake?
Pound cake is a noun.
What is the plural of pound cake?
The plural of pound cake is pound cakes.

Words near pound cake in the dictionary

  1. pouncings
  2. pouncy
  3. Pouncys
  4. pound
  5. pound a beat
  6. pound cake
  7. pound cakes
  8. Pound Creek
  9. pound dirt
  10. pound for pound
  11. pound of flesh

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