sheet cake

noun

A simple, flat, rectangular cake, often vanilla or sometimes chocolate.

Meanings

nounsheet cake (countable and uncountable, plural sheet cakes)

plural sheet cakes

  1. UScountableuncountableA simple, flat, rectangular cake, often vanilla or sometimes chocolate.

    Wearing a kelly green tennis dress with white espadrilles, she was carrying a sheet cake resembling a flag, blueberries and strawberries as the stars and stripes arranged across a layer of whipped cream.

    2022, Ling Ma, “Tomorrow”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN

    Synonyms: sheath cake, slab cake

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA simple, flat, rectangular cake, often vanilla or sometimes chocolate.

Translations

Danish bradepandekage
  • bradepandekageA simple, flat, rectangular cake
Finnish levykakku
  • levykakkuA simple, flat, rectangular cake
Swedish långpannekaka
  • långpannekakaA simple, flat, rectangular cake
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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