shortcake.
A sweet cake or biscuit (crumbly leavened bread) typically made with flour, sugar, salt, butter, milk or cream, and sometimes eggs, and leavened with baking powder or baking soda.
Meaning & usage
A sweet cake or biscuit (crumbly leavened bread) typically made with flour, sugar, salt, butter, milk or cream, and sometimes eggs, and leavened with baking powder or baking soda.
A dessert made with such a cake, typically having layers of cream and fruit.
Synonym of shortbread
Where this word comes from
From short + cake.
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