drop cake
nounEtymology From the way the dough is dropped onto cooking sheets for baking.
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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:
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- He sees drop cake and his face lights up.1929, Joseph Carl McMullen, The Automatic Butler: A Farce in Three Acts, page 64:
- Related terms
- drop biscuit