queen's cake

A form of queen cake — A soft, muffin-sized, often heart-shaped cake, particularly popular in the 18th century, containing currants and flavoured with mace and sometimes lemons or oranges, which may be topped with chocolate or shredded coconut.

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nounqueen's cake (plural queen's cakes)

plural queen's cakes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of queen cake.

    Lily was so surprised she sat down on a warm queen's cake that happened to be near, […]

    1886, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “The Candy Country”, in Lulu’s Library, volume I, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1890, →OCLC, page 52
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