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verbs
make/bake a cake
• Let's make a cake for his birthday.
decorate a cake
• We decorated the cake with strawberries and cream.
ice a cake
British English , frost a cake American English (= cover a cake with fine sugar mixed with a liquid )
• She iced her own wedding cake.
phrases
a piece/slice of cake
• Would you like a slice of cake?
a cake recipe
• Do you have any good cake recipes?
a cake tin
British English , a cake pan American English (= that you bake a cake in )
• Use a 20 cm cake tin.
a cake shop
• There's a very good cake shop in the market.
cake mix
(= a mixture that you buy in a packet and use for making a cake )
• If I'm feeling lazy, I sometimes use a cake mix.
types of cake
a birthday/Christmas/wedding cake
(= a special cake for a birthday etc )
• Lucy had twelve candles on her birthday cake.
a home-made cake
• Home-made cakes are much nicer than bought ones.
a fruit cake
(= one with dried fruit in it )
• Fruit cakes keep for quite a long time.
a sponge cake
(= one made from flour, butter, sugar, and eggs )
• It's best to eat sponge cakes on the day you make them.
a chocolate/lemon etc cake
(= a sponge cake with a chocolate etc flavour )
• She'd baked a chocolate cake for me.
a cream cake
(= one with thick cream inside it )
• I'll get fat if I eat any more cream cakes.
COMMON ERRORS
>>> Do not say ' cook a cake '. Say make a cake or bake a cake .
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noun ADJ. home-made | moist, rich, sticky a rich, moist fruit cake | apple, carrot, chocolate, cream, fruit, seed, sponge | layer, sandwich | birthday, Christmas, wedding I blew out the candles on my birthday cake. QUANT. bit, piece, slice He cut her a slice of cake. VERB + CAKE eat, have | bake, make | decorate, ice, spread with sth Spread the cake with the butter cream. | cut Everyone cheered as the bride and groom cut the wedding cake. CAKE + NOUN crumbs She brushed some cake crumbs off her lap. | recipe | mix, mixture a packet of cake mix Pour the cake mixture into a greased and lined tin. | board, tin | shop, stall, standFOOD
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