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teacake

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Meaning

  1. noun A baked good such as a cake or biscuit intended to be eaten with tea or at an afternoon tea. A flat, round bread bun, usually containing currants, sultanas or peel and often served toasted and buttered with tea. A bread roll without fruit; a barm. A snack consisting of shortbread or wafer topped with meringue or marshmallow, coated in chocolate. A traditional type of dense, large cookie, typically hard-baked, not particularly sweet, and with few extra fillings. A small delicate cake or pastry; a petit four. A sweet cake similar to pound cake, sometimes sprinkled with cinnamon and caster sugar, often served warm.
  2. noun A flat, round bread bun, usually containing currants, sultanas or peel and often served toasted and buttered with tea.
  3. noun A bread roll without fruit; a barm.
  4. noun A snack consisting of shortbread or wafer topped with meringue or marshmallow, coated in chocolate.
  5. noun A traditional type of dense, large cookie, typically hard-baked, not particularly sweet, and with few extra fillings.
  6. noun A small delicate cake or pastry; a petit four.
  7. noun A sweet cake similar to pound cake, sometimes sprinkled with cinnamon and caster sugar, often served warm.
  8. noun A cake flavoured with tea. A fruit cake similar to a barmbrack (but often without yeast) flavoured with tea and whiskey, especially associated with Halloween.

Similar words

buttered tea-cake tatty cake chocolate teacake tea bread breadcake sally lunn tattie cake rich tea biscuit treacle tart

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