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Pastry and Cake Definitions

Pastry

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.

Cake

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

Pastry

Baked sweet foods made with pastry
Viennese pastry.

Cake

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

Pastry

One of these baked foods.

Cake

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

(Informal) A sweet baked good.

Cake

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

Pastry

(countable) A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.
That pastry shop sells not just pastries, but all kinds of baked goods.

Cake

A layer or deposit of compacted matter
A cake of grime in the oven.

Pastry

(uncountable) The food group formed by the various kinds of pastries.
That pastry shop sells not just pastry, but all kinds of baked goods.

Cake

To cover or fill with a thick layer, as of compacted matter
A miner whose face was caked with soot.
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Pastry

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

Cake

To become formed into a compact or crusty mass
As temperatures dropped, the wet snow caked.

Pastry

A place where pastry is made.

Cake

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

Pastry

(uncountable) The act or art of making pastry.
He learned pastry from the great Gaston Lenôtre.

Cake

A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
An oatmeal cake
A johnnycake
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Pastry

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.
I used to work in the fish section, but now I've been moved to pastry.

Cake

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

Pastry

The place where pastry is made.

Cake

A block of any of various dense materials.
A cake of soap
A cake of sand

Pastry

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

Cake

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

Pastry

A dough of flour and water and shortening

Cake

(slang) Money.

Pastry

Any of various baked foods made of dough or batter

Cake

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

Cake

(slang) A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.
Mmm, I'd like to cut me some of that cake!

Cake

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

Cake

(transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
His shoes are caked with mud.

Cake

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

Cake

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

Cake

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

Cake

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

Cake

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

Cake

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.
Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood.

Cake

To form into a cake, or mass.

Cake

To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
Clotted blood that caked within.

Cake

To cackle as a goose.

Cake

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

Cake

Small flat mass of chopped food

Cake

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

Cake

Form a coat over;
Dirt had coated her face

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