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cheesecake
Cheesecake is a dessert made with a soft fresh cheese (typically cottage cheese, cream cheese, quark or ricotta), eggs, and sugar. It may have a crust or base made from crushed cookies (or digestive biscuits), graham crackers, pastry, or sometimes sponge cake. Cheesecake is known for its rich, creamy flavor and smooth texture. It may be baked or unbaked and is usually served chilled.
cinnamon roll
sweet food pastry
gingerbread
Gingerbread refers to a broad category of baked goods, typically flavored with ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon and sweetened with honey, sugar, or molasses. Gingerbread foods vary, ranging from a moist loaf cake to forms nearly as crisp as a ginger snap.
sponge cake
type of cake
scone
A scone ( or ) is a traditional British and Irish baked good, popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In the US, scones are a different baked product from the rest of the world, usually sweeter, triangular in shape and served on their own. Scones are usually made of either wheat flour or oatmeal, with baking powder as a leavening agent, and baked on sheet pans, or fried in a frying pan. A scone can be either lightly sweetened or savoury, and can be occasionally glazed with egg wash. The sweetened scone is a basic component of the cream tea, and the afternoon
carrot cake
sweet cake that contains grated carrots as an ingredient
Swiss roll
dessert
Battenberg cake
sponge cake
pound cake
type of cake traditionally made with a pound of flour, butter, eggs, and sugar
apple cake
dessert
Jaffa Cakes
type of cookie or cake
shortcake
Shortcake generally refers to a dessert with a crumbly scone-like texture. There are multiple variations of shortcake, most of which are served with fruit and cream. One of the most popular is strawberry shortcake, which is typically served with whipped cream. Other variations common in the UK are blackberry and clotted cream shortcake and lemon berry shortcake, which is served with lemon curd in place of cream.
Welsh cake
Welsh traditional sweet bread made of flour, butter or lard, currants, eggs, milk and spices
bara brith
fruited bread of Welsh origin
Simnel cake
Light fruit cake with two layers of almond paste or marzipan, one in the middle and one on top, that is toasted and eaten during the Easter period
plum cake
range of cakes made with dried or fresh fruit
Eccles cake
small, round cake filled with currants
Madeira cake
sponge cake
Banbury cake
food
Chelsea bun
English type of sweet bun
Dundee cake
Scottish fruit cake
Bath bun
sweet bun with segar sprinkles
sheet cake
flat rectangular cake; cake baked in a large, flat rectangular pan
parkin
gingerbread cake
angel cake
British layer cake
Shrewsbury cake
English biscuit or cake
Queen Elizabeth cake
cake with coconut topping
lardy cake
English form of sweet spiced bread
heavy cake
traditional cake from Cornwall
rock cake
small fruit cake resembling a rock
Tunis cake
British Christmas dessert
Fat rascal
Traditional cake from Yorkshire