Talk:Cake

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Is pancake and cupcakes and waffles and muffins also cakes? The cakes in the picture are round and plump. A pancake is flat. A cupcake is small. A waffle has small valleys and hills on it. A muffin looks likes a cupcake. Can those types of food count as cake? Coffsneeze 19:40, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Dictionaries (like M-W) all seem to say those types of foods certainly count as cake. But I think "cake" as in "any baked thing made of batter" is like jargon for bakers. I think it would confuse English speaking waitresses (perhaps all over the world?) if you called a waffle "that cake". (Simple wiktionary has only the one definition) -Haikon 03:43, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Maybe "cake" is the general word that can mean all bake things made of batter. Coffsneeze 11:29, 15 April 2007 (UTC)