black cake

noun

A Caribbean fruitcake based on the English plum pudding, with plums and raisins soaked in rum.

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Meanings

nounblack cake (countable and uncountable, plural black cakes)

plural black cakes

  1. countableuncountableA Caribbean fruitcake based on the English plum pudding, with plums and raisins soaked in rum.

    ‘She was telling her daughter the best way to soak the fruit for black cake one Christmas.’

    2022, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds, Hamish Hamilton, page 177
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black cake. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black%20cake

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“black cake.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black%20cake. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “black cake,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black%20cake.

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