Cake vs. Cupcake

Cakenoun

A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.

Cakenoun

A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.

Cakenoun

A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.

Cakenoun

A block of any of various dense materials.

Cakenoun

(slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.

Cakenoun

(slang) Money.

Cakenoun

Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too, particularly regarding the UK’s approach to Brexit negotiations.

Cakeverb

(transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.

Cakeverb

To form into a cake, or mass.

Cakenoun

A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.

Cakenoun

A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.

Cakenoun

A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.

Cakenoun

A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake.

Cakeverb

To form into a cake, or mass.

Cakeverb

To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.

Cakeverb

To cackle as a goose.

Cakenoun

a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax);

Cakenoun

small flat mass of chopped food

Cakenoun

made from or based on a mixture of flour and sugar and eggs

Cakeverb

form a coat over;

Cake

Cake is a form of sweet food made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients, that is usually baked. In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate, and that share features with other desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies.

Cupcakenoun

A small cake baked in a paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.

Cupcakenoun

(slang) An attractive young woman.

Cupcakenoun

(slang) A weak or effeminate man.

Cupcakenoun

(dated) Used as a term of endearment

Cupcakeverb

To flirt; to talk or act amorously or intimately.

Cupcakenoun

small cake baked in a muffin tin

Cupcake

A cupcake (also British English: fairy cake; Hiberno-English: bun; Australian English: fairy cake or patty cake) is a small cake designed to serve one person, which may be baked in a small thin paper or aluminum cup. As with larger cakes, frosting and other cake decorations such as fruit and candy may be applied.