Cheesecake vs. Cake — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cheesecake and Cake
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Cheesecake
Cheesecake is a sweet dessert consisting of one or more layers. The main, and thickest, layer consists of a mixture of a soft, fresh cheese (typically cottage cheese, cream cheese or ricotta), eggs, and sugar.
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.
Cheesecake
A cake made of sweetened cottage cheese or cream cheese, eggs, milk, sugar, and flavorings.
Cake
A sweet baked food made of flour, liquid, eggs, and other ingredients, such as raising agents and flavorings.
Cheesecake
Images, especially photographs, of sexually attractive, scantily attired women.
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Cake
A flat rounded mass of dough or batter, such as a pancake, that is baked or fried.
Cheesecake
The women depicted in such images.
Cake
A flat rounded mass of hashed or chopped food that is baked or fried; a patty.
Cheesecake
A pie made of sweetened and flavoured cottage cheese or cream cheese, eggs and milk on a crunchy base.
Cheesecake is an especially delicious dessert.
Cake
A shaped or molded piece, as of soap or ice.
Cheesecake
A pie made of cream, eggs and milk (somewhat resembling the modern American chess cake).
Cake
A layer or deposit of compacted matter
A cake of grime in the oven.
Cheesecake
(uncountable) Imagery]] of scantily clad, sexually attractive young women; pin-ups.
Leg art
Company policy forbids displaying cheesecake in the locker rooms.
Cake
To cover or fill with a thick layer, as of compacted matter
A miner whose face was caked with soot.
Cheesecake
Made with sweetened cream cheese and eggs and cream baked in a crumb crust
Cake
To become formed into a compact or crusty mass
As temperatures dropped, the wet snow caked.
Cheesecake
A photograph of an attractive woman in minimal attire
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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