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prune cake

prune cake

3.9
A moist cake made with pureed prunes
  • noun
  • /pruːn keɪk/
translation icon : pastel de ciruelas
  • For her birthday, she made a moist prune cake topped with a creamy frosting.

Examples

  • Even now, as he and Isaac are driving up, Andras's older sisters are baking rugelach, prune cake, and mandelbrot.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Chocolate prune cake in there.

    Brubaker (1980)

  • The dessert at the party was a delicious prune cake that everyone enjoyed.

  • He surprised his guests with a homemade prune cake that had a rich flavor and texture.

How Moist

fruitcake
25 1.4
prune cake
3.9
pound cake
8 1.2
chiffon cake
1 2.8
sponge cake
7 1.8

Surface Forms

prune cake singular
prune cakes plural

Morphology

prune + cake

The meaning 'a cake made with prunes' is directly and compositionally derived from 'prune' (a dried plum) + 'cake' (a sweet baked item); this follows a transparent noun+noun compounding pattern like 'carrot cake.' Such food-naming conventions are cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words would readily infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Prune cake comes from home cooks who mashed dried plums called prunes and mixed them into the cake batter to make the cake very moist and sweet. So the name now means 'a moist cake made with prunes'.