SPONGE CAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sponge cake mean? 

• SPONGE CAKE (noun)
  The noun SPONGE CAKE has 1 sense:

1. a light porous cake made with eggs and flour and sugar without shortening

  Familiarity information: SPONGE CAKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPONGE CAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A light porous cake made with eggs and flour and sugar without shortening

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("sponge cake" is a kind of...):

cake (baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sponge cake"):

angel cake; angel food cake (a light sponge cake made without egg yolks)

jellyroll; Swiss roll (thin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up to make a cylindrical cake)

Madeira cake; Madeira sponge (a rich sponge cake with close texture; intended to be eaten with a glass of Madeira wine)

Twinkie (a small sponge cake with a synthetic cream filling)