English
Pronunciation
Noun
sponge cake (countable and uncountable, plural sponge cakes)
- 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.
- Hyponyms: Victoria sponge, genoise
I made a sponge cake the other day. It was a disaster: I forgot the baking powder! It didn't rise!
- (informal, figurative, uncommon) Something that is simple or very easy.
Translations
type of soft cake made from flour, sugar, baking powder and eggs, with a spongy structure
- Albanian: pandispanjë f
- Arabic: كَعْكَة إسْفَنْجِيَّة f (kaʕka(t) ʔisfanjiyya)
- Armenian: բիսկվիթ (biskvitʻ)
- Asturian: bizcuechu m, bizcochu m
- Basque: bizkotxo
- Belarusian: біскві́т m (biskvít)
- Bulgarian: пандишпа́н (bg) m (pandišpán)
- Catalan: pa de pessic (ca) m, bescuit (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 海綿蛋糕 / 海绵蛋糕 (hoi2 min4 daan6 gou1)
- Mandarin: 海綿蛋糕 / 海绵蛋糕 (hǎimián dàngāo)
- Dutch: biscuitgebak n
- Esperanto: spongkuko, spongokuko
- Estonian: keeks (et)
- Finnish: sokerikakku
- French: sponge cake (fr) m, génoise (fr) f
- Galician: biscoito (gl) m, bolo esponxoso m, bica (gl) f
- German: Biskuit (de) n, Biskuitkuchen (de) m, Biskuitmasse f
- Greek: παντεσπάνι (el) n (pantespáni)
- Hebrew: עוּגַת סְפוֹג (he) f (ugát s'fog)
- Hungarian: piskóta (hu)
- Icelandic: svampterta f
- Indonesian: kue sponge
- Irish: císte spúinse m
- Italian: pandispagna m, pan di Spagna m
- Japanese: スポンジケーキ (ja) (suponji kēki), スポンジ生地 (スポンジきじ, suponji kiji)
- Kazakh: бисквит (biskvit)
- Korean: 스펀지 케이크 (seupeonji keikeu)
- Lithuanian: biskvitas m
- Macedonian: пандишпа́н m (pandišpán)
- Malagasy: (please verify) mandrehitra (mg)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sukkerbrød n
- Nynorsk: sukkerbrød n
- Persian: کیک اسفنجی (fa) (keyk-e esfanji)
- Polish: biszkopt (pl) m, ciasto biszkoptowe n, biskwit (pl) m
- Portuguese: pão de ló m, bolo esponjoso m
- Romanian: chec (ro) n, pandișpan (ro) n
- Russian: бискви́т (ru) m (biskvít)
- Spanish: bizcocho (es) m
- Swedish: sockerkaka (sv) c
- Thai: เค้กฟองน้ำ (kéek fɔɔng-nám), สปันจ์เค้ก (sà-bpan kéek), สาลี่ (th) (sǎa-lîi) (Thai-specific)
- Turkish: pandispanya (tr), sünger kek
- Ukrainian: біскві́т (uk) m (biskvít), біскві́тне ті́сто n (biskvítne tísto)
- Uzbek: biskvit (uz)
- Vietnamese: bánh bông lan
- Welsh: teisen sbwnj f, teisen felen f
- Yiddish: לעקעך m (lekekh), צוקער־לעקעך m (tsuker-lekekh)
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