icebox cake
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- noun
- /ˈaɪsˌbɑks keɪk/
- US
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pastel de nevera
- For dessert, I served a delicious icebox cake made of layers of cookies and whipped cream.
Examples
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I made an icebox cake for the party.
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Have you ever tried an icebox cake?
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After assembling the icebox cake, you need to refrigerate it overnight for the best texture.
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She made her famous icebox cake for the summer barbecue.
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The restaurant offers a classic icebox cake with layers of chocolate wafers and whipped cream.
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After dinner, we enjoyed a slice of icebox cake that had chilled perfectly in the fridge.
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My mother taught me how to prepare a classic icebox cake with chocolate wafers and fluffy frosting.
Synonyms
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1.6
A dessert of ice cream shaped like a cake and decorated for parties
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A sweet cold food made by freezing milk or fruit
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Morphology
The compound is compositionally transparent: an 'icebox cake' is a cake associated with an icebox, so a learner who knows 'icebox' and 'cake' can infer it is a chilled or refrigerated dessert. The specific preparation (layering cookies and cream) is a recipe detail, but the central idea of a cold/icebox-related cake follows a common noun+noun pattern and is readily derivable by B1 learners.
Etymology
Icebox cake may come from the time before electric fridges, when people kept ice in a wooden box called an icebox. They layered cookies and cream and left it in the icebox to set, so the name icebox cake means a 'cake' made by 'chilling' instead of 'baking'.