drop cake

English

Alternative forms

• dropcake, drop-cake

Etymology

From the way the dough is dropped onto cooking sheets for baking.

Noun

drop cake (countable and uncountable, plural drop cakes)

1. 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.