Marie Antoinette’s suggested peasant diet

noun

1. A breadlike food made from a dough or batter that is usually fried or baked in small flat shapes and is often unleavened
2. A sweet baked food made from a dough or thick batter usually containing flour and sugar and often shortening, eggs, and a raising agent (such as baking powder)
3. A flattened usually round mass of food that is baked or fried

   "a fish cake"

4. A block of compacted or congealed matter

   "a cake of ice"

5. A hard or brittle layer or deposit
6. Something easily done

   "after so much studying, the test was cake"

verb

1. Encrust

   "caked with dust"

2. To fill (a space) with a packed mass
3. To form or harden into a mass

noun

1. A usually white sponge cake made of flour, sugar, and whites of eggs

noun

1. A cake made with shredded carrots in the batter

   "At least half the entries were the classic carrot cake made with flour, oil, eggs, sugar, carrot and spices and topped with cream-cheese icing, a recipe that emerged in the United States in the late 1970s."

noun

1. A sweet rich bread often with added fruit, nuts, and spices that is sometimes glazed after baking

noun

1. A rich chocolate cake

noun

1. A round fried cake made of shredded fish and mashed potato

noun

1. Pancake

noun

1. A sweet ring-shaped cake traditionally with a symbolic bean or figurine of the infant Jesus inside that is served from the Epiphany to Shrove Tuesday

   "Of course, no one does king cake quite like New Orleans. It's decorated in the colors of Mardi Gras—purple (to represent justice), green (faith) and gold (power)—as chosen by one of the city's first Mardi Gras organizations, or krewes. A token or trinket—usually a plastic baby symbolizing the infant Jesus—is hidden inside. Whoever finds the baby may be crowned king or queen of the party; more important, that person is responsible for bringing the cake to the next gathering."

noun

1. A cake made with light and dark batter so as to have a mottled appearance