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drop cake en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A baked confection made by dropping sweet dough by spoonfuls onto a cooking sheet and baking.
   • 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:
   • 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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Relateds

drop biscuit