rock cake

(Cookery) a small cake containing dried fruit and spice, with a rough surface supposed to resemble a rock

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Noun

rock cake - a small cake with a hard surface said to resemble a rock

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

Translations

biscotto con uvetta

rock cake

n (Brit) (bun) → brutto ma buono

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The injustice was compounded when on arrival we were all sat down in the gym/dining hall and given a rock cake and a Coronation mug filled with warm milk!

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Lees Foods Plc will acquire the entire share capital of the parent company Rock Cake Ltd, incorporating its subsidiary companies Patisserie UK (Holdings) Ltd and Patisserie UK Ltd, (the trading Company), in a deal worth 2.45m [pounds sterling].

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It's on the right, a few houses from the South Kensington tube station, next to a florist and a bookstore, and long familiar to my family and friends as the Rock Cake Cafe.

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