Meanings
plural Banbury cakes
- A spiced, currant-filled, flat pastry cake similar to an Eccles cake, but more oval in shape.
Didcot had one definite pleasure. We knew that little boys would be going up and down the platform singing out, "Banbury cakes! Banbury cakes!" And mother would crane out and buy some, just to encourage the crew.
1948 November and December, “By Broad Gauge to Cornwall”, in Railway Magazine, page 357Synonyms: Banbury tart
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA spiced, currant-filled, flat pastry cake similar to an Eccles cake, but more oval in shape.
Origin
Originally made in Banbury, Oxfordshire.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Banbury cake. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Banbury%20cake
“Banbury cake.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Banbury%20cake. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Banbury cake,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Banbury%20cake.
Source: Banbury cake on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.