Cake vs. Cookie

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Main Difference

The main difference between Cake and Cookie is that the Cake is a bread-like baked dessert and Cookie is a baked treat.

  • 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.

  • Cookie

    A cookie is a baked or cooked food that is small, flat and sweet. It usually contains flour, sugar and some type of oil or fat. It may include other ingredients such as raisins, oats, chocolate chips, nuts, etc.

    In most English-speaking countries except for the United States and Canada, crisp cookies are called biscuits. Chewier biscuits are sometimes called cookies even in the United Kingdom. Some cookies may also be named by their shape, such as date squares or bars.

    Cookies or biscuits may be mass-produced in factories, made in small bakeries or homemade. Biscuit or cookie variants include sandwich biscuits, such as custard creams, Jammie Dodgers, Bourbons and Oreos, with marshmallow or jam filling and sometimes dipped in chocolate or another sweet coating. Cookies are often served with beverages such as milk, coffee or tea. Factory-made cookies are sold in grocery stores, convenience stores and vending machines. Fresh-baked cookies are sold at bakeries and coffeehouses, with the latter ranging from small business-sized establishments to multinational corporations such as Starbucks.

Wikipedia
  • 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.

  • Cookie (noun)

    a small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm

    “biscuit|bickie|q2=UK, Australia”

  • Cookie (noun)

    a sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which (usually) has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts{{,}} etc. baked into it

  • Cookie (noun)

    a bun

  • Cookie (noun)

    an HTTP cookie, web cookie

  • Cookie (noun)

    a magic cookie

  • Cookie (noun)

    a young, attractive woman

  • Cookie (noun)

    the female genitalia

  • Cookie (noun)

    Affectionate name for a cook.

  • Cookie (noun)

    a cucoloris

  • Cookie (verb)

    To send a cookie to (a user, computer, etc.).

Wiktionary
  • Cookie (noun)

    a sweet biscuit.

  • Cookie (noun)

    a person of a specified kind

    “she’s a tough cookie”

  • Cookie (noun)

    a plain bun.

  • Cookie (noun)

    a packet of data sent by an Internet server to a browser, which is returned by the browser each time it subsequently accesses the same server, used to identify the user or track their access to the server.

Oxford Dictionary

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