Cake vs. Muffin

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.

Muffinnoun

(British) A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc, before being eaten.

Muffinnoun

(US) A type of individual bread such as corn, bran, banana or zucchini bread often sliced and spread with butter, etc before being eaten.

Muffinnoun

(especially US) (informally) A cupcake without frosting, but sometimes glazed.

Muffinnoun

(computing) A mechanism used in the Java Network Launching Protocol analogous to the cookie mechanism and which permits a program running in a browser to perform operations on a client machine.

Muffinnoun

(slang) Term of endearment.

Muffinnoun

(sexual slang) A vulva.

Muffinnoun

A less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball.

Muffinnoun

(slang) A charming, attractive young man. en

Muffinnoun

(dated) A small plate, smaller than a twiffler.

Muffinnoun

A light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea.

Muffinnoun

a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan

Muffin

A muffin is an individual-sized, baked product. It can refer to two distinct items, a part-raised flatbread that is baked and then cooked on a griddle (typically unsweetened) and a cupcake-like quickbread (often sweetened) that is chemically leavened and then baked in a mold.