Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cake or rich bread, often baked with a sweet crumbly topping or drizzled with a glaze after baking.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Bread sponge enriched, thinned, iced, and baked in a thin layer; a kind of a bun: often twisted and shaped in rings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a cake or sweet bread usually glazed after baking, and having added nuts and fruits; it is often served with coffee.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
cake flavoured withcoffee - noun Any cake designed to be
eaten with coffee
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee
- noun a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee
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Examples
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I would think a ring-pan would work for a coffeecake too.
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This would go best if accompanied by some homemade coffeecake.
Ask Amy washingtonpost.com 2010
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Instead of a bowl of cereal and a muffin or piece of coffeecake, I had cereal with fresh fruit in it.
CSS: Shaping the New You Jack Canfield 2010
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Link much rather wake up eat a coffeecake, take bath, take nap
much rather wake up eat a coffeecake, take bath, take nap thecoughlin 2008
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Instead of a bowl of cereal and a muffin or piece of coffeecake, I had cereal with fresh fruit in it.
CSS: Shaping the New You Jack Canfield 2010
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Bake the coffeecake until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean with a few crumbs attached, about 45-50 minutes.
Archive 2008-06-01 Laura 2008
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Bake the coffeecake until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean with a few crumbs attached, about 45-50 minutes.
A Tornado and A Whole Grain Blueberry Buckle Coffeecake Laura 2008
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While they talked the friend offered him coffee (coffeecake, whispered my brain) and himself sipped some coffee (coffeecake) and our hero looked around the coffee-room (coffeecake) …until finally I just had to get up and look up coffeecake recipes.
Here a Trigger, There a Trigger | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010
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• Fold chunks into your favorite coffeecake recipe.
The City Cook Kate McDonough 2010
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To celebrate, I baked Henry an almond-blueberry coffeecake.
Handle with Care JODI PICOULT 2009
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