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marble cake

noun

  1. a cake given a streaked, marblelike appearance by the incomplete mixing of dark, especially chocolate, and light batters.


marble cake

noun

  1. a cake with a marbled appearance obtained by incompletely mixing dark and light mixtures
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of marble cake1

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
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Example Sentences

There was trivia, doll-making and a chocolate marble cake that was gone in minutes.

But she said a dozen eggs now cost her about $2.50, and on Sunday, she picked up a carton of them, along with oatmeal, tomatoes, mushrooms and sliced marble cake.

This marble cake is buttery and not too sweet.

By Aug. 20 — Peterson’s birthday — his players threw a surprise party between two-a-day practices with marble cake, handmade cards and a water balloon fight.

He planned to cook not one, but three cakes in his own kitchen — “a chocolate cake, a strawberry cake and a marble cake” — to take to Natasha’s mother’s house for Christmas dessert.

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