Cake vs. Biscuit — What's the Difference?

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.

A biscuit is a flour-based baked food product. In most countries, particularly in the Commonwealth and Ireland, biscuits are typically hard, flat and unleavened.

A sweet baked food made of flour, liquid, eggs, and other ingredients, such as raising agents and flavorings.

A small baked unleavened cake, typically crisp, flat, and sweet

A flat rounded mass of dough or batter, such as a pancake, that is baked or fried.

Porcelain or other pottery which has been fired but not glazed

A flat rounded mass of hashed or chopped food that is baked or fried; a patty.

A light brown colour.

A shaped or molded piece, as of soap or ice.

A small flat piece of wood used to join two larger pieces of wood together, fitting into slots in each.

A layer or deposit of compacted matter

A small cake of shortened bread leavened with baking powder or soda.

To cover or fill with a thick layer, as of compacted matter

A thin, crisp cracker.

To become formed into a compact or crusty mass

A cookie.

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

A hard, dry cracker given to dogs as a treat or dietary supplement.

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

A thin, often oblong, waferlike piece of wood, glued into slots to connect larger pieces of wood in a joint.

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

A pale brown.

A block of any of various dense materials.

Pl. biscuit Clay that has been fired once but not glazed. Also called bisque2.

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

A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.

(slang) Money.

A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.

Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.

A cracker.

(slang) A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.

(nautical) The "bread" formerly supplied to naval ships, which was made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.

(pyrotechnics) A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.

A form of unglazed earthenware.

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

A light brown colour.

(transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.

(woodworking) A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear.

(intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.

A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.

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

A handgun, especially a revolver.

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

A puck (hockey puck).

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

(slang) The head.

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.

A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.

To form into a cake, or mass.

A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.

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

Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.

To cackle as a goose.

A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.

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

Small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda

Small flat mass of chopped food

Any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)

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

Form a coat over;