ring-cake
noun1
US A cake having a ring baked inside it, with slices sold as a form of lottery. Once a common feature of church fairs.
- Then pointing successively to the lottery-table, grab-box, ring-cake, and cigars, he continued[…]1870, Jeremiah N. Thomas, “Jonadab Cleaver's Experiment; Or, the Last Church Fair at Rutway”, in Sabbath at Home:
- Then there is the church fair with its grab-bag having a silver pencil, and its ring-cake from which some one will get a gold ring for five cents.1887, “The Book World”, in The Sunday-school World: