shortcakes

short·cake (shôrt

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1. A dessert consisting of a biscuit or cake served with fruit and topped with cream.

2. The biscuit or cake made for this dessert.

shortcake [ˈʃɔːtˌkeɪk]

1. (Cookery) a kind of shortbread made from a rich biscuit dough

2. (Cookery) a dessert made of layers of shortcake filled with fruit and cream

[from short (in the sense: crumbly)]

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Noun

shortcake - very short biscuit dough baked as individual biscuits or a round loaf; served with sweetened fruit and usually whipped cream

baking-powder biscuit - leavened with baking powder

Translations

shortcake [ˈʃɔːtkeɪk] N

1. (Brit) especie de mantecada

2. (US) → torta f de frutas

shortcake [ˈʃɔː^rtkeɪk]

n (British) (= shortbread) → sablé m

(mainly US) (= dessert) strawberry shortcake → tarte f sablée aux fraises
short-change [ˌʃɔː^rtˈtʃeɪndʒ] vt

(in shop) [+ customer] → ne pas rendre assez à

(= treat unfairly) → être injuste envers
short-circuit [ˌʃɔː^rtˈsɜː^rkɪt]

n → court-circuit m

(ELECTRICITY, ELECTRONICS) → court-circuiter

(fig) (= bypass) [+ process, system] → court-circuiter

vi → faire court-circuit

shortcake [ˈʃɔːtˌkeɪk] n (Am) torta di pasta frolla farcita con frutta e panna (Brit) → frollino

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Typically, about 3,000 attend the festival and enjoy about 2,500 shortcakes, which pay for upkeep and repairs at the Grange.

Strawberries, rain or shine by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)

There will be more than 50 food booths offering everything from cotton candy, funnel cake and build-your-own strawberry shortcakes to strawberry pizza, strawberry tacos and strawberry egg rolls.

ALL THE USUAL FUN, AND STAWBERRYLAND, TOO by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

Let mixture sit for 1 hour, refrigerated, before topping your shortcakes.

Beyond strawberry shortcake by Daniels-Zeller, Debra / Vegetarian Journal

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