Meanings
nounFanta cake (countable and uncountable, plural Fanta cakes)
plural Fanta cakes
- countableuncountableA German sponge cake with Fanta as the key ingredient.
The popularity of Fanta is unclear, but it was often used to flavour food when other flavourings were a luxury and a recipe for Fantakuchen, Fanta cake, is still popular.
2020 August 13, Richard Denham, M[eirion] J[ames] Trow, “Fanta”, in Weird War Two: Strange Facts and Tales from the World’s Weirdest Conflict, BLKDOG Publishing, →ISBN, page 93
Origin
- GermanFantakuchen
- EnglishFanta cake
Calque of German Fantakuchen.
More words from German
Full word history & related roots →Translations
German Fantakuchen
- Fantakuchensponge cake
Norwegian fantakake
- fantakakesponge cake
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Fanta cake. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Fanta%20cake
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