coffeecake
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2.5
A sweet cake or bread often served with coffee
- noun
- /ˈkɔːfɪkeɪk/
:
pastel de café
- She baked a rich chocolate coffeecake topped with nuts.
- Pecan Coffeecake
- Apple Coffeecake
- cream coffeecake
Examples
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I made a coffeecake for your trip!
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I mean, and there'd be a delicious cup of coffee and a piece of coffeecake.
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I enjoyed a slice of coffeecake with my morning coffee.
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For dessert, we served coffeecake drizzled with icing and berries.
Synonyms
coffee cake
vscoffeecake
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1.6
A sweet cake or bread often flavored with cinnamon and nuts, eaten with coffee
is the joined single word form used for the same item
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2.0
A sweet cake with a thick crumbly topping often eaten with coffee
is a general sweet bread that can include various toppings or fillings
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2.2
A small sweet cake or bun often made with dried fruit and served with tea
is a larger sweet baked item usually served in slices rather than single buns
3.6
A ring-shaped cake often made with fruit or nuts and topped with icing
is the general sweet baked item usually not limited to a ring shape
How Sweet
Surface Forms
coffeecake singular
coffeecakes plural
Morphology
Etymology
Coffeecake is simply a joining of coffee and cake, so it originally meant a cake 'to have with coffee'. That's why a coffeecake is a sweet cake often served at coffee time and sometimes with a crumbly top.