cake vs flan

cake

noun
  • A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing. 

  • A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump. 

  • Money. 

  • A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough. 

  • A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake. 

  • A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse. 

  • A block of any of various dense materials. 

  • A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake. 

  • Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too. 

verb
  • Coat (something) with a crust of solid material. 

  • Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard. 

  • To form into a cake, or mass. 

flan

noun
  • Baked tart with sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry case. (Compare quiche.) 

  • A coin die. (Compare planchet.) 

  • A fan of the U.S. TV series Firefly. 

  • A dessert of congealed custard, often topped with caramel, especially popular in Spanish-speaking countries. 

verb
  • To splay or bevel internally, as a window-pane. 

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