spice cake
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- noun
- /spaɪs keɪk/
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- Perhaps I will indeed make a spice cake for myself with it (the cream cheese frosting is my spouse's favorite).
- apple spice cake
- pumpkin spice cake
Examples
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Dorothy had baked a spice cake for the occasion.
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I frequently make my spouse Pineapple Upside Down Cake for their birthday, although last week (said birthday), the request was for a spice cake with cream cheese frosting.
Blog text (9) -
"Marjorie Lamb's apple spice cake."
Fiction book (1999) -
On your way home, why don't you pick up a spice cake... and then we can all have a little dessert back at the suite later?
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"She pulled on her cardigan, wrapped the spice cake in a napkin, and put it in her handbag.
Fiction book (2000) -
She made a spice cake and raked a whole pint of blackberry jam into the batter.
Fiction book (1990) -
She's in the kitchen checking the oven to see whether the spice cake is ready.
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On your way home, why don't you pick up a spice cake... and then we can all have a little dessert back at the suite later?
Synonyms
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A sweet baked food made from flour, sugar, eggs, and fat
How Spiced
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a cake flavored with spices' is directly compositional from 'spice' (seasoning) + 'cake' (a sweet baked item); a B1 learner who knows both words can infer this without prior exposure. This compound noun follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern of noun + noun modification (type-of), making it immediately transparent.
Etymology
Spice cake comes from old holiday baking when cooks added warm spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves to cakes to make them smell nice and taste warm. The words spice and cake show this, so today spice cake means 'a cake flavored with spices'.