A cake seasoned with spice; dialect, a rich currant-cake. Also in combinations.

a rich cake made with sugar, butter, and cream; also figurative.

A cake containing raisins, currants, and often orange peel and other candied fruits.

a light, moist, usually leavened cake containing butter, sugar, flour, and eggs.

A large rich cake, originally one in which one pound of each of the principal ingredients is used (see quot. 1747).

any of various dark-coloured cakes; spec. (Caribbean) a rich, moist cake, typically made with burnt sugar, rum-soaked dried fruit, and spices, and…

a type of rich buttery fruit cake, originally made in Dundee, traditionally containing dried fruit, ground almonds, and candied peel, and covered on…

A cake or pudding; now usually a large rich cake often filled with cream, or cream and fruit, and highly decorated; also, meat or fish baked and…

(see quots.).

= Dundee cake n. at sense 2b.

A white layer cake of a type traditional in the southern United States, with a rich filling typically containing nuts, dried fruit, and bourbon or…