Pastry vs. Cake

Dough or paste consisting primarily of shortening or another fatty substance mixed with flour and water, often baked and used as a crust for sweet foods such as pies and tarts.

A sweet baked food made of flour, liquid, eggs, and other ingredients, such as raising agents and flavorings.

Baked sweet foods made with pastry

A flat rounded mass of dough or batter, such as a pancake, that is baked or fried.

One of these baked foods.

A flat rounded mass of hashed or chopped food that is baked or fried; a patty.

(Informal) A sweet baked good.

A shaped or molded piece, as of soap or ice.

(countable) A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.

A layer or deposit of compacted matter

(uncountable) The food group formed by the various kinds of pastries.

To cover or fill with a thick layer, as of compacted matter

(uncountable) The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.

To become formed into a compact or crusty mass

A place where pastry is made.

A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.

(uncountable) The act or art of making pastry.

A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.

Desserts of all kinds, whether or not these incorporate the baked item made from flour and fat, or that section of a kitchen that prepares these.

A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.

The place where pastry is made.

A block of any of various dense materials.

Articles of food made of paste, or having a crust made of paste, as pies, tarts, etc.

(slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.

A dough of flour and water and shortening

(slang) Money.

Any of various baked foods made of dough or batter

Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.

(slang) A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.

(pyrotechnics) A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.

(transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.

(transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.

(intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.

A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.

A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.

A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.

A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake.

To form into a cake, or mass.

To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.

To cackle as a goose.

A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax);

Small flat mass of chopped food

Made from or based on a mixture of flour and sugar and eggs

Form a coat over;