birthday cake

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Noun

birthday cake (countable and uncountable, plural birthday cakes)

  2. A cake, often iced and decorated, made to celebrate a person's birthday.
    Hypernyms: cake < dessert < food
    • 2013, Anita Hughes, chapter 20, in Lake Como, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN, page 221:
      “I almost ran away.” / “But you didn’t,” Hallie said seriously. / “We stayed for birthday cake.” Portia sat cross-legged on the bed. “Alfonso’s niece was afraid of the candles and Alfonso helped her blow them out. […]”
    • 2015, Claire Douglas, chapter 20, in The Sisters, London: Harper, →ISBN, page 209:
      We sit around chatting, with plates of birthday cake on our laps that none of us have got the stomach for.
  3. In particular, a buttery, frosted vanilla cake of the sort commonly made to celebrate birthdays in the US, used in compound words to attribute a buttery or creamy, sugary, vanilla cake flavour or aroma to other things.
    Pat crushed up a package of birthday cake Oreos and sprinkled them over birthday cake ice cream.
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