cake mold
- noun
- /keɪk moʊld/
- US
:
molde para pastel
- The bakery offered a variety of cake molds in different shapes, including stars and hearts.
Examples
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I used a round cake mold to make a beautiful chocolate cake for the party.
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There are painters who make themselves a little cake mold, and then they bake cakes.
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To create the perfect layer cake, you need to evenly grease the cake mold before pouring in the batter.
Synonyms
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3.8
A container that gives shape to food like jelly
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3.7
A round baking pan with sides that open and a latch to release cakes easily
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1.0
A metal pan people use to bake cakes
A container like a pan that shapes and holds dough or batter while it bakes
A pan that holds batter or dough while it bakes
How Complex
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'cake' (a sweet baked food) + 'mold' (a container or pattern for shaping) yields a container used to shape cakes. This simple noun+noun construction and the shared lexical meanings make the sense immediately derivable for a B1 learner (and parallels exist in many other languages).
Etymology
Cake mold comes from the simple image of a mold as a hollow shape and a cake filling it. Bakers pour batter into a cake mold so the cake 'takes on' the mold's shape and keeps that shape after baking. That's why cake mold means a pan used to bake cakes in a particular shape.