Cake
Cake is a form of sweet dessert that is typically baked. In its oldest forms, cakes were modifications of breads, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate, and that share features with other desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies.
Typical cake ingredients are flour, sugar, eggs, butter or oil or margarine, a liquid, and leavening agents, such as baking soda or baking powder. Common additional ingredients and flavourings include dried, candied, or fresh fruit, nuts, cocoa, and extracts such as vanilla, with numerous substitutions for the primary ingredients. Cakes can also be filled with fruit preserves, nuts or dessert sauces (like pastry cream), iced with buttercream or other icings, and decorated with marzipan, piped borders, or candied fruit.Cake is often served as a celebratory dish on ceremonial occasions, such as weddings, anniversaries, and birthdays. There are countless cake recipes; some are bread-like, some are rich and elaborate, and many are centuries old. Cake making is no longer a complicated procedure; while at one time considerable labor went into cake making (particularly the whisking of egg foams), baking equipment and directions have been simplified so that even the most amateur cook may bake a cake.
Brownie (noun)
A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
Brownie (noun)
A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people’s housework for them.
Brownie (noun)
A household spirit or revered ancestor.
Brownie (noun)
Any of various Miletus.
Brownie (noun)
A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.
Brownie (noun)
A person of Arab, Indian or Hispanic descent. Also rarely used for a Native American or Pacific Islander.
Brownie (noun)
A girl in the first level of girl scouts.
Cake (noun)
A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar{{,}} and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
Cake (noun)
A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
“an oatmeal cake”
“a johnnycake”
Cake (noun)
A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
“buckwheat cakes”
Cake (noun)
A block of any of various dense materials.
“a cake of soap”
“a cake of sand”
Cake (noun)
A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
Cake (noun)
Money.
Cake (noun)
Used to describe the doctrine of having one’s cake and eating it too, particularly regarding the UK’s approach to Brexit negotiations.
Cake (verb)
Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
“His shoes are caked with mud.”
Cake (verb)
To form into a cake, or mass.
Brownie (noun)
a small square of rich chocolate cake, typically containing nuts.
Brownie (noun)
a piece of sweet currant bread.
Brownie (noun)
a member of the junior branch of the Guide Association, for girls aged between about 7 and 10, wearing a brown uniform
“for my birthday I want to join the Brownies”
Brownie (noun)
a benevolent elf that supposedly haunts houses and does housework secretly.