I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a birthday cake
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She had a birthday cake with 21 silver candles on it.
a chocolate cake/biscuit/pudding etc
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For her birthday he made a chocolate cake.
a cream cake/bun British English (= a cake with cream inside )
be caked with blood (= covered with dry blood )
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The cat's fur was caked with blood.
cake pan
cake slice
cake tin
caked with mud (= covered in mud )
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boots caked with mud
cake/soup etc mix
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Add water to the cake mix and bake at 375°F.
Christmas cake
devil's food cake
Dundee cake
Eccles cake
fairy cake
hot cake
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Copies of the book are selling like hot cakes.
Madeira cake
oat cake
pound cake
simnel cake
sponge cake
the wedding cake
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The bride and groom cut the wedding cake.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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A big birthday cake came out for Sandra with eighteen candles which she ceremoniously blew out.
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And of course the birthday boy should always get the biggest slice of cake .
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But Harry can expect a big cake , a pile of cards ... and a special phone call from home.
chocolate
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According to friends close to her then, her only vice was a double portion of her favourite chocolate cake .
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Each of us receives a slice of heavenly chocolate cake .
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There's been a chocolate cake .
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To serve, set several orange slices alongside a slice of chocolate cake .
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She would have been on the floor for those pastries, and after the chocolate cake .
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A chocolate nut upside-down cake was the request of Teresa Ipock of Longview, Wash.
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His winning concoction was Macadamia Fudge Torte: chocolate cake with fudge-filled cavities, topped by macadamia nut streusel.
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A molten chocolate cake served with a scoop of chestnut ice cream borders on a religious experience.
cream
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And then Emily fetched the cream cakes in from the fridge.
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Abba were a sausage on the cream cake of pop.
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There were always cream cakes and I would be brought mine ceremoniously on a plate.
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For a treat for myself I'd occasionally buy a cream cake .
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Fat people can't stop eating because someday there will be no more cream cakes .
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The blow was softened somewhat by the relocation of a cream cake factory bringing 700 jobs.
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At your workplace you find that it is somebody's birthday and they treat everyone to a cream cake .
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And finally the Danube dances past Vienna, home of the waltz, great composers and superb cream cakes !
hot
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All the rage, she says, selling like hot cakes .
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If you are having hot cakes , also order hash browns.
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Opren was selling like hot cakes .
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Sirloin Stockade has a great dessert item -- hot fudge cake -- which is an undercooked brownie-like substance saturated with fudge sauce.
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It should sell like hot cakes if I knock it into the right sort of shape.
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Cards depicting Santa in horribly compromising positions are selling like hot cakes .
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It smelled of hot cake rising in the oven.
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The thing which put Sunday tea apart from that of the rest of the week was the lovely hot Wiltshire dough cake .
large
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A nearby tray was furnished with a mug and a large plate scattered with the crumbs of a large slice of cake .
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Form into 10 large crab cakes .
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Cut a little off the wide base of the large cake so that it will sit firmly as the domed body of the clown.
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Newspaper colleagues greeted Xi with a large cake on his arrival back in Hong Kong late Saturday night.
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They may believe that a smaller share of a larger cake is absolutely bigger than a larger share of a smaller cake.
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In his right hand was a large cake with jam on it.
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The cold buffet lunch, of high standard, included a large cake in the shape and colours of Searcher.
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Spread top of smaller cake with jam, invert on to larger cake and press down firmly.
round
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Early birthdays were preserved in snapshots: round cakes blazing in the blackness, her own clapped hands in the high chair.
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Shape the crawfish mixture into round cakes , approximately 2 ounces each.
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Almost at once she was back again staggering under the weight of an enormous round chocolate cake on a china platter.
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Cover the round cake with white icing.
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I have spent my entire holiday handing round cakes and business.
small
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Half fill the small basins with cake mixture and fill the large basin with the remainder.
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Cut the risen surfaces off the small cakes and sandwich these together with the marmalade to form the head.
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They may believe that a smaller share of a larger cake is absolutely bigger than a larger share of a smaller cake.
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Prices start at £3.75 for small gift cakes and £6.50 for large party versions.
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Then he had three small cakes and an apple.
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Spread top of smaller cake with jam, invert on to larger cake and press down firmly.
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Spread rest of smaller cake with jam and cover with remaining marzipan, as before.
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The whole of East-West trade is at present only a small piece of a small slice of a rather small cake .
■ NOUN
birthday
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A willingness to learn and perseverance are much more important than candles on a birthday cake .
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The Poole family, grouped rather self-consciously round the birthday cake on Earth, lapsed into a sudden silence.
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Dot had made Eth a birthday cake with 15 candles, which happened to be her age when they met.
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Were birthday cakes , wishbones, wells and fountains, or churches better than or equal to stars?
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In part two: A slice of history.The birthday cake that was sheer folly.
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Vivid memories of her childhood holidays go on and on about birthday cakes , pumpkin pies, fruitcakes, and homemade candy.
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A big birthday cake came out for Sandra with eighteen candles which she ceremoniously blew out.
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It's a birthday cake for you Duncan.
crab
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Guests began with crab cakes , caviar, creme fraiche, smoked salmon and mini beef wellingtons.
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Form into 10 large crab cakes .
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I am having a blast, as I crunch on crab cakes with jicama slaw and lemon chive aioli.
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Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke is putting up a crab cake dinner, and a tour of Baltimore.
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The happy hour food menu includes hot wings, chicken quesadillas, onion rings and crab cakes , among others.
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Pan-fried Louisiana crab cakes with remoulade sauce and Cobb salad with creamy tarragon sauce are perennial lunchtime favorites.
madeira
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Uncooked madeira cake mixture can be frozen in an airtight container.
mix
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It wasn't as splashy as water - it was sort of like cake mix .
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In a large mixing bowl combine cake mix and pudding.
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Christmas tree cake rack Miniature trees on a rack for sponge cake mixes and jellies.
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Stir nuts and water into remaining cake mix mixture, then sprinkle over filling.
mixture
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Uncooked madeira cake mixture can be frozen in an airtight container.
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You may want to measure it from the top of the pan to the cake mixture .
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Half fill the small basins with cake mixture and fill the large basin with the remainder.
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Léonie went on licking the cake mixture out of the bowl.
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Divide the cake mixture between the cans and place on a greased baking tray.
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The octopus body is made from a tubular cake , achieved by baking cake mixture in an empty food can.
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Spread half the cake mixture into a greased and lined cake tin.
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Divide the cake mixture between them.
pan
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The Clown and Doll cake pans come with two icing bags and nozzles.
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Press into greased 10-by-13-inch cake pan .
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Grease two 9-inch layer-cake pans , line bottoms with wax paper and grease paper.
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Oil a 9-by-1 2-inch cake pan and pour polenta into it.
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Grease and flour two cake pans .
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If you decide to use a tube pan instead of a cake pan, it may take 10 minutes more to bake.
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Butter and dust with flour a 10-inch cake pan . 2.
potato
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Slide the potato cake from the pan on to a plate.
pound
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His plate held the last few crumbs of a generous slice of pound cake .
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She made potato salad and deviled eggs and tea and I brought green beans and a pound cake .
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After ripening, use as a topping for pudding, pound cake or ice cream.
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She had been in the midst of baking a pound cake and it had come out too heavy.
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I got a pound cake from Patience mailed in September.
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He puts butter on already buttery things like croissants and pound cake .
recipe
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This has to be one of the easiest-to-make Christmas cake recipes ever.
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Many cake recipes call for all-purpose flour, but those that suggest cake flour do so for a reason.
rice
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From top, Smoked salmon rolls with pesto rice , Christmas jewel basmati salad, Basmati rice cake .
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In celebration of a new weight control year, the Quaker Oats Co. has developed yet another rice cake flavor.
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Lunch Rice cakes , low-fat cheese, tomatoes and onion, apple.
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Basmati rice cake Serves 6-8 1 Boil the rice for 3 minutes in water, then drain.
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Deep-fried glutinous rice cakes Glutinous rice is sweet and its sticky texture makes it easy to mould.
seed
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He'd like Mrs Peters and her seed cake .
sponge
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Foodstuff varies from fried egg and chips to sausage rolls and sponge cakes .
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Brush the glaze while still hot over a fruit cake , but allow to cool slightly before spreading over a sponge cake.
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It was rising like a sponge cake .
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Both are light sponge cakes with jam and vanilla filling, decorated with soft fondant icing.
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Desmond's wife brought them tea and a sponge cake that was still warm.
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Card magic cake Buy some regular sponge cake from a local store.
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They lay within the cracked rocks like the jam in a crazy sponge cake .
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Use the following techniques for lining tins for quick and madeira sponge cakes , and for fruit cakes.
tin
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Victorine balanced the cake tin on the palm of her outstretched hand and frowned at it.
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She lifts a cake tin out of her tote bag.
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Pour into a 7in round cake tin . 2.
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Fold in the lemon juice and zest. 4 Pour into the prepared cake tin and smooth the top level.
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There are plenty of cake tins in this month's equipment feature on page 68 to inspire creative cake baking.
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I've got all her cake tins and her chopping board, which still smells very evocatively of her wonderful Wienerschnitzel.
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There were a number of cake tins and Melanie opened one and found last night's currant cake.
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Spread half the cake mixture into a greased and lined cake tin .
wedding
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The final chapter - on whither the wedding cake - had this reviewer in helpless stitches.
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Encrusted with statues, pillars, and reliefs, it looks like a huge wedding cake in stone.
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Everybody saved all their food coupons for the wedding cake .
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We all eat wedding cakes from Gisella Tect.
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The white pony comes complete with veil, wedding cake , wedding ring, comb and ribbon, for perfect grooming!
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But this is no ordinary wedding cake - it's a knitted one!
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Three sides of the Piazza were bordered by arched colonnades, tiers upon tiers of them, like a massive wedding cake .
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And to round it off their was a tiered wedding cake - all provided by Mrs White.
■ VERB
bake
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It can be found in baking a cake , pruning a tree, or holding a children's party.
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Explanation Both baking powder and baking soda are used in baking cakes and some breads.
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They were baked in bread, cakes and buns and crushed to make juice.
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They put up streamers and got hats and baked a couple of cakes .
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Pat Bateson's analogy is to consider baking a cake .
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A black family moves in - the neighbours bake them a cake .
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She can bake wonderful cakes full of wildflowers, but she never quite finds the sweetness she craves.
bring
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This time, Eleanor had brought a cake of her own - she was good at making them.
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They brought boxes of moon cakes and swallows' nests and bags of lotus seeds.
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This time she had brought him an almond cake and some chocolate.
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Jessica often rewarded Dutsch for his friendliness by bringing him cookies and cakes .
buy
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If he hadn't eaten it, I would have bought the cake at the auction and got rid of it.
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They were buying Eccles cakes and treacle tart and currant buns and iced tarts with bright-red cherries on top.
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Card magic cake Buy some regular sponge cake from a local store.
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For a treat for myself I'd occasionally buy a cream cake .
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You can buy wonderful cakes and not have to bake them.
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They saw Commander Abigail, with his rolled-up towel and bathing-trunks under his arm, buying cake from Mrs Stead-Carter.
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Next door to that I could buy carrot cake ice-cream.
cover
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Use to cover the cake , smoothing around the sides and over the cake drum.
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Roll out marzipan to a round large enough to cover the cake .
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In this country you cover the cake with poisoned icing.
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Trim off excess icing around the base. Cover the round cake with white icing.
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It is mainly used for modelling, but can also be used for covering cakes .
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Use some red icing to cover the smallest cake and place on top of the green and white parcels.
cut
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Holding firm with one hand, cut and shape the cake as illustrated.
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He had short-cropped hair and a jawline lean and sharp enough to cut cake .
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Some of the world's most beautiful women have also cut more birthday cakes than Clinton.
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Retirement celebrations and cut into their retirement cake .
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Alistair Gentleman and Bob Bomont cut the celebration cake .
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How to cut the cake is yet to be resolved.
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The proceedings were opened by Fiona Richmond who cut the celebration cake and presented the raffle prized.
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Leave to dry. 4 Cut the cake in half vertically.
cutting
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He is shown, composed after the initial welcome shock, cutting his specially made cake .
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He directed them in blowing out the candles and cutting the cake .
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Cell divisions cleave the egg, like cutting a cake , and result in a multicellular structure.
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Children often use dough in imitation of pastry; rolling, cutting and making cakes , pies or pasties.
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He and his brother would take delight in cutting out oat cakes .
eat
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The small boy ate ten griddle cakes and the man eight.
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I go to wine bars, I eat carrot cake .
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Then he ate one-third of a cake , leaving one-sixth unaccounted for.
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There was a time, a generation or two back, when it was fashionable to eat bits of cake yeast.
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The audience sat in a warm honey glow, drinking tea and eating richly iced cake .
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And for the rest of the morning on into early afternoon, HsingHsing eats cake and bamboo and carrots and gruel.
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It also lets feminist psychologists have and eat their methodological cake .
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So I said my line, which was: Who ate the Easter cake ?
ice
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We pay him to put icing on the cake , and tie him to us.
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The background is icing on the cake .
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Greening had a day not with just icing on the cake , but with lashings of clotted cream too.
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But within that reddish brown icing on the white cake , you can see the neurons arranged into a half-dozen layers.
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Although an extra £50, this really was the icing on the cake of a fabulous week.
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The prospects of a change in government banking policy has been the icing on the cake .
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A year ago, Holiday Inn put the icing on the cake at two of its Florida properties.
make
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Gran did that, you know, as usual, and she made the cake and I've iced it.
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You can make this cake at home.
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In her spare time she makes and decorates cakes of different shapes and sizes for all occasions.
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This extends to not allowing your children to lick the egg beaters after making a cake if you used fresh eggs.
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When the cake is cool, slice it across with a large knife to make two cakes.
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Reading a cookery book about how to make a cake is very different from the actual doing of it.
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She took up the pastime after impressing friends and family when she made an engagement cake for her brother-in-law.
place
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Trim the top of one cake flat and place the other cake on top of it.
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Spread a little buttercream over the centre of the marzipan circle and place the second cake on top of this.
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Another possibility is to place two rectangular cakes together to make a football pitch.
sell
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All the rage, she says, selling like hot cakes .
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They didn't sell many cakes .
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There are stalls selling sweets, cakes , espetada and wine.
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Mrs Stead-Carter had sold her cakes and was hurrying between the kitchen and the tea-tables.
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But it's all we do we don't even sell cake decorations or equipment.
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Cafes sell cakes made without sugar.
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Opren was selling like hot cakes .
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It should sell like hot cakes if I knock it into the right sort of shape.
serve
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Canned salmon sold at eleven cents a can, and Aunt Pat splurged now and then and served fried salmon cakes .
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A slave was serving Jehana with sweet cakes on a tray.
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They had served a cake , so big you could walk inside it, shaped like an igloo.
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A Tea Garden, serving home made cakes , is set in one of the walled gardens.
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A snack bar serves tea and cakes .
slice
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In my dream, I am slicing a cake with Mary Wollstonecraft.
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Mter slicing the cake for the cameramen, he will step to the microphones for his usual birthday observations.
wed
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It is now a tawdry tourist symbol, an elaborately frosted wedding-cake up which climbing companies yo-yo hundreds of clients.
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We cut the enormous multilayered white wedding cake without incident and toasted our marriage with champagne.
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He walked past the jewelry shops, every bakery window with a pink-and-white wedding cake .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a piece of cake
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But there is no use pretending the Saturn-Pluto effect will be a piece of cake.
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Glacier walking is a piece of cake; well this bit was, with rolling hills of dazzling serenity.
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My bone marrow was harvested a couple of weeks ago and the whole thing was a piece of cake.
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Normally, walking along tarmac is a piece of cake after the rocky excursion along a ridge.
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Should be a piece of cake.
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That was a piece of cake compared to finding a square mile without an ad.
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The one he was allocated, Parky, a homely, Hoomey-sized bay, was a piece of cake compared with Bones.
be selling/going like hot cakes
sell like hot cakes
slab of cake/chocolate/meat etc
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Ahead of him a morose-looking man in a cardigan was sorting through slabs of meat in plastic containers.
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One of the occupied tables contained a man and woman and child, tucking in to great slabs of meat.
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She simply looks satisfied, as if she had just bitten into the most delicious slab of chocolate she ever tasted.
the icing on the cake
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A year ago, Holiday Inn put the icing on the cake at two of its Florida properties.
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And for the family business with such humble beginnings the expansion is just the icing on the cake.
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And just to put the icing on the cake he has named it Black Forest Chateau.
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Female speaker It's an added bonus, the icing on the cake.
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I would also endorse heartily our bikes, which provided the icing on the cake.
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Items such as these are the icing on the cake.
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The prospects of a change in government banking policy has been the icing on the cake.
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This is just the icing on the cake.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a birthday cake
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Do you want a piece of cake ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A plastic Santa was sledging across the snow-white surface of a cake .
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Each of us receives a slice of heavenly chocolate cake .
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From top, Smoked salmon rolls with pesto rice, Christmas jewel basmati salad, Basmati rice cake .
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Many cake recipes call for all-purpose flour, but those that suggest cake flour do so for a reason.
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Noreen, frankly, wanted her cake and to eat it as well.
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Pour into greased and floured 9-by-13-inch cake pan.
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She would have been on the floor for those pastries, and after the chocolate cake .
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When the cake is cool, slice it across with a large knife to make two cakes.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
blood
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The cloth was caked with her blood .
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His eyes opened and he saw his finger caked with blood .
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My trousers were caked with blood .
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On Jan. 9, officials confiscated a large residential dumpster caked with dried blood on the inner sides and bottom.
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Despite the caked blood and the chalky bruised skin I recognised the victim.
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Later, I helped her sponge off the caked blood .
mud
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The hand was caked in mud , the fingers hooked into a claw.
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The left side of her face is caked with bloodied mud .
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She took the can in her gloved hand, which was caked in black mud .
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At noon, Ron Malcolm appeared at the door, wearing boots caked with dried mud and a red baseball cap.
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His boots were still caked with mud , but they could wait.
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Bodies caked in mud , the rescuers gather for a debriefing session; up sound.
rice
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My husband and the minister wives who come to the party do not care for the rice cake .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a piece of cake
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But there is no use pretending the Saturn-Pluto effect will be a piece of cake.
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Glacier walking is a piece of cake; well this bit was, with rolling hills of dazzling serenity.
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My bone marrow was harvested a couple of weeks ago and the whole thing was a piece of cake.
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Normally, walking along tarmac is a piece of cake after the rocky excursion along a ridge.
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Should be a piece of cake.
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That was a piece of cake compared to finding a square mile without an ad.
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The one he was allocated, Parky, a homely, Hoomey-sized bay, was a piece of cake compared with Bones.
be selling/going like hot cakes
slab of cake/chocolate/meat etc
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Ahead of him a morose-looking man in a cardigan was sorting through slabs of meat in plastic containers.
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One of the occupied tables contained a man and woman and child, tucking in to great slabs of meat.
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She simply looks satisfied, as if she had just bitten into the most delicious slab of chocolate she ever tasted.
the icing on the cake
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A year ago, Holiday Inn put the icing on the cake at two of its Florida properties.
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And for the family business with such humble beginnings the expansion is just the icing on the cake.
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And just to put the icing on the cake he has named it Black Forest Chateau.
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Female speaker It's an added bonus, the icing on the cake.
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I would also endorse heartily our bikes, which provided the icing on the cake.
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Items such as these are the icing on the cake.
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The prospects of a change in government banking policy has been the icing on the cake.
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This is just the icing on the cake.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His plimsolls were now caked in heavy clods of wet earth and his jersey was already wet from his soaked mackintosh.
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It was caked with dirt, but he slipped it on anyway.
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The hand was caked in mud, the fingers hooked into a claw.
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Their lashes would be heavily caked whereas the newcomers were fearful of the technique at first.