applesauce cake
- noun
:
pastel de puré de manzana
- For dessert, she baked an applesauce cake that filled the kitchen with a warm, spiced aroma.
Examples
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I have applesauce cake too.
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I'd better check on that applesauce cake.
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My applesauce cake!
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There's a thermos of orange juice... ...and some applesauce cake to go with it.
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He brought a slice of applesauce cake to the picnic, and everyone loved how moist and flavorful it was.
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The recipe for applesauce cake calls for cinnamon and nutmeg to enhance its delicious flavor.
Synonyms
850
1.0
A sweet baked food made from flour, sugar, eggs, and fat
How Moist
25
1.4
7
1.8
- US
3
2.9
- US
5
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a cake made with applesauce' is directly and compositionally derived from 'applesauce' (purée of cooked apples) + 'cake' (a baked sweet), so a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer the referent. This type of noun-noun composition is cross-linguistically common and follows transparent culinary naming patterns, making the expression immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Applesauce cake comes from home cooks using applesauce in the batter instead of butter or pieces of apple. The wet applesauce keeps the cake moist and gives it apple flavor, so the name simply points to the main ingredient and came to mean 'a moist, spiced cake made with applesauce'.