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Noun

S: (n) cake, bar (a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)) "a bar of chocolate"

S: (n) patty, cake (small flat mass of chopped food)

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S: (n) cake (baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat)

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S: (n) applesauce cake (moist spicy cake containing applesauce)
S: (n) baba (a small cake leavened with yeast)

S: (n) baba au rhum, rum baba (a baba soaked in rum)

S: (n) birthday cake (decorated cake served at a birthday party)
S: (n) cheesecake (made with sweetened cream cheese and eggs and cream baked in a crumb crust)
S: (n) chiffon cake (very light cake)
S: (n) chocolate cake (cake containing chocolate)

S: (n) devil's food, devil's food cake (very dark chocolate cake)

S: (n) coconut cake (cake containing shredded coconut in batter and frosting)
S: (n) coffeecake, coffee cake (a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee)

S: (n) babka (a coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds)
S: (n) coffee ring (ring-shaped coffeecake with fruits or nuts and often iced)

S: (n) crumb cake (cake or coffeecake topped with a mixture of sugar and butter and flour)
S: (n) crumpet (a thick soft cake with a porous texture; cooked on a griddle)
S: (n) cupcake (small cake baked in a muffin tin)
S: (n) Eccles cake (a flat round cake of sweetened pastry filled with dried fruit)
S: (n) fruitcake (a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on)

S: (n) Christmas cake (a rich fruitcake (usually covered with icing and marzipan) and eaten at Christmas)
S: (n) simnel (a fruitcake (sometimes covered with almond paste) eaten at mid-Lent or Easter or Christmas)

S: (n) gateau (any of various rich and elaborate cakes)
S: (n) sponge cake (a light porous cake made with eggs and flour and sugar without shortening)

S: (n) angel cake, angel food cake (a light sponge cake made without egg yolks)
S: (n) jellyroll, Swiss roll (thin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up to make a cylindrical cake)
S: (n) Madeira cake, Madeira sponge (a rich sponge cake with close texture; intended to be eaten with a glass of Madeira wine)
S: (n) Twinkie (a small sponge cake with a synthetic cream filling)

S: (n) wedding cake, bridecake (a rich cake with two or more tiers and covered with frosting and decorations; served at a wedding reception)
S: (n) white cake (cake made without egg yolks)
S: (n) spice cake (cake flavored with spices)
S: (n) gingerbread (cake flavored with ginger)
S: (n) pound cake (rich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flour)
S: (n) layer cake (cake having layers held together by a sweet filling and usually covered with frosting)
S: (n) torte (rich cake usually covered with cream and fruit or nuts; originated in Austria)
S: (n) petit four (small (individual) frosted and ornamented cake)
S: (n) prune cake (moist cake containing prunes that have been made into a puree)
S: (n) jumble, jumbal (small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie)
S: (n) savarin (a sponge cake baked in a ring mold)
S: (n) Boston cream pie (layer cake filled with custard)
S: (n) upside-down cake, skillet cake (batter baked atop a layer of sweetened fruit then turned upside down so fruit is on top)
S: (n) honey cake (a spicy cake partially sweetened with honey)
S: (n) marble cake (made of light and dark batter very lightly blended)
S: (n) genoise (rich and delicate Italian sponge cake)
S: (n) seedcake, seed cake (a sweet cake flavored with sesame or caraway seeds and lemon)
S: (n) teacake (any of various small cakes or cookies often served with tea)

S: (n) Sally Lunn (a flat round slightly sweet teacake usually served hot)

S: (n) cookie, cooky, biscuit (any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term))

S: (n) teacake, tea biscuit (flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea)
S: (n) dog biscuit (a hard biscuit for dogs)
S: (n) butter cookie (cookie containing much butter)

S: (n) shortbread, shortbread cookie (very rich thick butter cookie)

S: (n) spice cookie (cookie flavored with spices)
S: (n) almond cookie, almond crescent (very rich cookie containing ground almonds; usually crescent-shaped)
S: (n) brownie (square or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts)
S: (n) gingersnap, ginger snap, snap, ginger nut (a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger)

S: (n) brandysnap (a gingersnap flavored with brandy)

S: (n) macaroon (chewy cookie usually containing almond paste)

S: (n) ratafia, ratafia biscuit (macaroon flavored with ratafia liqueur)
S: (n) coconut macaroon (macaroon containing coconut)

S: (n) kiss (a cookie made of egg whites and sugar)
S: (n) ladyfinger (small finger-shaped sponge cake)
S: (n) anise cookie (cookie made without butter and flavored with anise seed)
S: (n) molasses cookie (very spicy cookies sweetened partially with molasses)
S: (n) oreo, oreo cookie (chocolate cookie with white cream filling)
S: (n) raisin-nut cookie (cookie filled with a paste of raisins and nuts)
S: (n) refrigerator cookie (dough formed into a roll and chilled in the refrigerator then sliced and baked)
S: (n) raisin cookie (cookie containing raisins)
S: (n) fruit bar (cookies containing chopped fruits either mixed in the dough or spread between layers of dough then baked and cut in bars)

S: (n) apricot bar (fruit bar containing apricot jam)
S: (n) date bar (fruit bar containing chopped dates)

S: (n) sugar cookie (cookies sprinkled with granulated sugar)
S: (n) oatmeal cookie (cookies containing rolled oats)
S: (n) chocolate chip cookie, Toll House cookie (cookies containing chocolate chips)
S: (n) fortune cookie (thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper)
S: (n) gingerbread man (gingerbread cut in the shape of a person)
S: (n) wafer (a small thin crisp cake or cookie)
S: (n) granola bar (cookie bar made of granola)

S: (n) friedcake (small cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat)

S: (n) doughboy (a rounded lump of dough that is deep-fried and served as hot bread) "the doughboy was a predecessor of the doughnut"
S: (n) doughnut, donut, sinker (a small ring-shaped friedcake)

S: (n) raised doughnut (a doughnut made light with yeast rather than baking powder)

S: (n) Berlin doughnut, bismark, jelly doughnut (a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam)
S: (n) fastnacht (doughnut traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday)

S: (n) cruller, twister (small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts)
S: (n) French fritter, beignet (a deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar)
S: (n) fritter (small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables)

S: (n) apple fritter (fritter containing sliced apple)
S: (n) corn fritter (fritter containing corn or corn kernels)

S: (n) pancake, battercake, flannel cake, flannel-cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hotcake, hot cake (a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle)

S: (n) buckwheat cake (a pancake made with buckwheat flour)
S: (n) buttermilk pancake (a pancake made with buttermilk)
S: (n) blini, bliny (Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream)
S: (n) blintz, blintze ((Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked)
S: (n) crape, crepe, French pancake (small very thin pancake)

S: (n) crepe Suzette (crepes flamed in a sweet orange-and-lemon flavored liqueur sauce)

S: (n) pfannkuchen, german pancake (puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce)
S: (n) potato pancake, latke (made of grated potato and egg with a little flour)
S: (n) tortilla (thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour)

S: (n) tostada (a crisp flat tortilla)

S: (n) waffle (pancake batter baked in a waffle iron)

S: (n) Belgian waffle (thick sweet waffle often eaten with ice cream or fruit sauce)

S: (n) rock cake (a small cake with a hard surface said to resemble a rock)
S: (n) Victoria sandwich, Victoria sponge (a cake consisting of two layers of sponge cake with a jelly filling in between)

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Verb

S: (v) coat, cake (form a coat over) "Dirt had coated her face"