Cake vs. Souffle — 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 light, fluffy baked dish made with egg yolks and beaten egg whites combined with various other ingredients and served as a main dish or sweetened as a dessert.

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

Alternative spelling of soufflé

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

(medicine) A murmuring or blowing sound.

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

A murmuring or blowing sound; as, the uterine souffle heard over the pregnant uterus.

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

A side dish served hot from the oven at dinner, made of eggs, milk, and flour or other farinaceous substance, beaten till very light, and flavored with fruits, liquors, or essence.

A layer or deposit of compacted matter

Decorated with very small drops or sprinkles of color, as if blown from a bellows.

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

Light fluffy dish of egg yolks and stiffly beaten egg whites mixed with e.g. cheese or fish or fruit

To become formed into a compact or crusty mass

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

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

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

A block of any of various dense materials.

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

(slang) Money.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

To form into a cake, or mass.

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

To cackle as a goose.

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

Small flat mass of chopped food

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

Form a coat over;