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Cake vs. Torte — What's the Difference?

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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