Tart vs. Cake

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Main Difference

The main difference between Tart and Cake is that the Tart is a baked dessert dish, a filled pastry base with an open top not covered with pastry and Cake is a bread-like baked dessert.

  • Tart

    A tart is a baked dish consisting of a filling over a pastry base with an open top not covered with pastry. The pastry is usually shortcrust pastry; the filling may be sweet or savoury, though modern tarts are usually fruit-based, sometimes with custard. Tartlet refers to a miniature tart; an example would be egg tarts. The categories of ‘tart’, ‘flan’, ‘quiche’, and ‘pie’ overlap, with no sharp distinctions.

  • 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.

Wikipedia
  • Tart (adjective)

    Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.

    “I ate a very tart apple.”

  • Tart (adjective)

    high or too high in acidity.

  • Tart (adjective)

    Sharp; keen; severe.

    “He gave me a very tart reply.”

  • Tart (noun)

    A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.

  • Tart (noun)

    A prostitute.

  • Tart (noun)

    By extension, any woman with loose sexual morals.

  • Tart (verb)

    To practice prostitution

  • Tart (verb)

    To practice promiscuous sex

  • Tart (verb)

    To dress garishly, ostentatiously, whorishly, or sluttily

  • 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.

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