Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Any cake flavored with coffee.

    a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee

  2. (countable, uncountable)Any cake meant to be eaten with coffee; often a babka or a streusel-topped cake (crumb cake).

Examples

5 sentences
  1. There'll be coffee and cake at five.

    deUm fünf gibt es Kaffee und Kuchen. — Hans07

  2. Can you show me how to make coffee cake?

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  3. I had a coffee cake; that was about it.

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  4. This coffee cake is exquisite.

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  5. 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 cakes

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee:coffeecake

Word family

1 related words
Relatedteacake

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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