drop-cake

A form of drop cake — 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

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of drop cake.

    This should be of the consistency of a thoroughly medium stiff drop-cake.

    1946, William E. Broeg, Roll & Hot Breads Make-up, page 84
    2 more examples

    I stood in despair contemplating my ten outstretched fingers, daubed and draped with embryo drop-cake, and looking for all the world like web-feet.

    1872, Gail Hamilton, Woman's Worth and Worthlessness, page 18

    Beat to the consistency of drop-cake, and drop a tablespoonful for each biscuit on a buttered pan.

    2011, Ann Treistman, Who Put the Devil in Deviled Eggs?
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APA

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Chicago

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

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