milk cake

Creamy Indian sweet

Milk cake is a dense, fudge-like South Asian sweet made by slowly reducing milk until it solidifies, then adding sugar and sometimes cardamom.

The result is rich and grainy, often cut into diamond or square shapes.

In other contexts, milk cake may refer to any cake made with milk as a primary ingredient, such as the Latin American tres leches cake soaked in three types of milk.

Related

sweet · sweet treat · dessert · soaked · syrup · fluffy · tender · crumb · vanilla · white · cream cheese · soft · rich · bakery · slice · layer · icing · sugar

Opposites
dairy content

milk cakefruit sorbet

Churned ice, plant-based

nut brittle · water ice

preparation method

milk cakesponge cake

Air-leavened flour confection

pound cake · baked good · fresh fruit · bread · cookie

texture and form

milk cakehard candy

Solid sugar confection

peanut brittle · biscotti · toffee · rock candy

Family

milk, cake, milks, milked, milking, milky, milkier, milkiest, milkiness

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G