Cake vs. Torte — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cake and Torte
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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.
Torte
A torte (from German Torte (German pronunciation: [ˈtɔrtə] (in turn from Latin via Italian torta) is a rich, usually multilayered, cake that is filled with whipped cream, buttercreams, mousses, jams, or fruits.Ordinarily, the cooled torte is glazed and garnished. Tortes are commonly baked in a springform pan.
Cake
A sweet baked food made of flour, liquid, eggs, and other ingredients, such as raising agents and flavorings.
Torte
A rich cake made with many eggs and little flour and usually containing chopped nuts.
Cake
A flat rounded mass of dough or batter, such as a pancake, that is baked or fried.
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Torte
A rich, dense cake, typically made with many eggs and relatively little flour (as opposed to a sponge cake or gâteau).
Cake
A flat rounded mass of hashed or chopped food that is baked or fried; a patty.
Torte
Rich cake usually covered with cream and fruit or nuts; originated in Austria
Cake
A shaped or molded piece, as of soap or ice.
Cake
A layer or deposit of compacted matter
A cake of grime in the oven.
Cake
To cover or fill with a thick layer, as of compacted matter
A miner whose face was caked with soot.
Cake
To become formed into a compact or crusty mass
As temperatures dropped, the wet snow caked.
Cake
A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
Cake
A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
An oatmeal cake
A johnnycake
Cake
A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
Buckwheat cakes
Cake
A block of any of various dense materials.
A cake of soap
A cake of sand
Cake
(slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
Cake
(slang) Money.
Cake
Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
Cake
(slang) A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.
Mmm, I'd like to cut me some of that cake!
Cake
(pyrotechnics) A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
Cake
(transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
His shoes are caked with mud.
Cake
(transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.
Cake
(intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
Cake
A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
Cake
A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
Cake
A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
Cake
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.
Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood.
Cake
To form into a cake, or mass.
Cake
To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
Clotted blood that caked within.
Cake
To cackle as a goose.
Cake
A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax);
A bar of chocolate
Cake
Small flat mass of chopped food
Cake
Made from or based on a mixture of flour and sugar and eggs
Cake
Form a coat over;
Dirt had coated her face
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