drop cake
English
Etymology
From the way the dough is dropped onto cooking sheets for baking
Alternative forms
- dropcake, drop-cake
Noun
drop cake (countable and uncountable, plural drop cakes)
- A baked confection made by dropping sweet dough by spoonfuls onto a cooking sheet and baking.
- 1922, Washington Platt, The Technical Side of Biscuit & Cake Baking, page 20:
- For this reason, contrary to the effect in biscuits, the addition of more moisture to a drop cake results in a flatter cake.
- 1924, Woman's Institute Library of Cookery:
- Drop cakes require a little more time than cookies.
- 1929, Joseph Carl McMullen, The Automatic Butler: A Farce in Three Acts, page 64:
- He sees drop cake and his face lights up.