Pastry vs. Cake

Pastrynoun

A baked food group which contains items made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.

Pastrynoun

(uncountable) The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.

Pastrynoun

(obsolete) The place where pastry is made.

Pastrynoun

The act or art of making pastry.

Pastrynoun

The place where pastry is made.

Pastrynoun

Articles of food made of paste, or having a crust made of paste, as pies, tarts, etc.

Pastrynoun

a dough of flour and water and shortening

Pastrynoun

any of various baked foods made of dough or batter

Pastry

Pastry is a dough of flour, water and shortening (solid fats, including butter or lard) that may be savoury or sweetened. Sweetened pastries are often described as bakers' confectionery.

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.