drop cake

noun

A baked confection made by dropping sweet dough by spoonfuls onto a cooking sheet and baking.

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Meanings

noundrop cake (countable and uncountable, plural drop cakes)

plural drop cakes · alternative dropcake · alternative drop-cake

  1. countableuncountableA baked confection made by dropping sweet dough by spoonfuls onto a cooking sheet and baking.

    He sees drop cake and his face lights up.

    1929, Joseph Carl McMullen, The Automatic Butler: A Farce in Three Acts, page 64
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    For this reason, contrary to the effect in biscuits, the addition of more moisture to a drop cake results in a flatter cake.

    1922, Washington Platt, The Technical Side of Biscuit & Cake Baking, page 20

    Drop cakes require a little more time than cookies.

    1924, Woman's Institute Library of Cookery

Origin

From the way the dough is dropped onto cooking sheets for baking.

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APA

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