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Sponge cake

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A light, soft, baked dessert (commonly layered with cream and jam) that is typically made with flour, sugar, baking powder and eggs, and has a firm, yet well aerated structure, similar to that of a sea sponge. countable, uncountable

    "I made a sponge cake the other day. It was a disaster: I forgot the baking powder! It didn't rise!"

  2. 2
    a light porous cake made with eggs and flour and sugar without shortening wordnet
  3. 3
    Something that is simple or very easy. countable, figuratively, informal, uncommon, uncountable

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