cake

Often has frosting

Cake is a sweet baked dessert, typically made from flour, sugar, eggs, and butter, often layered and frosted for celebrations: birthday cake, wedding cake.

The word extends to other flat, shaped masses: crab cake, rice cake, cake of soap.

As a verb, to cake is to form a hardened layer: Mud caked on his boots.

Something easy is a piece of cake.

To have your cake and eat it too is to want incompatible benefits.

frosting

icing

Sweet cake covering

glaze · decorated · piped · sprinkles · swirls · marzipan · sugarcraft · rosettes · writing · smooth

sweet

sugar

Crystalline carbohydrate sweetener

sugary · saccharine · caramel · honey · glazed · candied · sweetness · syrupy · treacly

baking

oven

Enclosed cooking chamber

  • batterUncooked cake mixture
  • flourMilled grain powder
  • eggsReproductive cells in shells

recipe · mixing · whisk · preheat · temperature · timer · spatula · grease · leavening · risen

layered

tiered

Having multiple levels

crumb · moist · slice · wedge · assembled · sandwiched · leveled · torte · chiffon · pound

varieties

sponge

Absorbent cleaning material

pavlova · lamington · mooncake · basque · kuchen · gateau · madeira · upside-down · lava · babka

celebration

birthday

Annual date of origin

party · milestone · congratulations · gathering · festivity · surprise · ceremony · toast · cheer · quinceañera

indulgence

decadent

Self-indulgent, often corruptly

  • richHaving much of something
  • moistSlightly wet
  • treatSomething pleasantly special

craving · temptation · guilty · pleasure · splurge · satisfy · delicious · heavenly · sinful · irresistible

Categories
Opposites
ease/difficulty (idiomatic)

cakenightmare

Frightening dream causing wakefulness

ordeal · struggle · beast · killer · bear

food type/texture

cakemeat

Animal tissue for food

steak · salad · bread · vegetables · soup

celebration/occasion

cakegruel

Thin watery porridge

hardtack · rations · bread and water

Phrases
Family

pancake, cakes, cupcake, fruitcake, caked, cheesecake, shortcake, caking, cakewalk

Familiarity
Top 1,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G