coffee cake
coffee cake · coffee cakes
Any cake flavored with coffeeAny cake flavored with coffee.
» There'll be coffee and cake at five.
Um fünf gibt es Kaffee und Kuchen.
Meaning
2 senses(countable, uncountable)Any cake flavored with coffee.
a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee
(countable, uncountable)Any cake meant to be eaten with coffee; often a babka or a streusel-topped cake (crumb cake).
Examples
5 sentencesThere'll be coffee and cake at five.
deUm fünf gibt es Kaffee und Kuchen. — Hans07
Can you show me how to make coffee cake?
I had a coffee cake; that was about it.
This coffee cake is exquisite.
I invited over Kozue, we had coffee and cake at the coffee shop together.
Origin
From coffee + cake.From coffee + cake.
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Forms
plural: coffee cakesSynonyms
1 synonymsClose in meaning
- a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee:coffeecake
Word family
1 related wordsRelatedteacake
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable