Definitions for pound-cake

pound-cake pound cake

Pound-Cake is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 379 anagrams from letters in pound-cake (-acdeknopu).

Definitions for pound-cake

noun

  1. a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.

Origin of pound-cake

First recorded in 1740-50

Examples for pound-cake

When food writer Petrit Husenaj went to visit TV food star Ina Garten, he got nervous and ruined a pound cake.

Make up a pound cake and add two teaspoonfuls of yeast-powder.

Thinking that no one could see me, I quickly put the pound cake ball into my back pocket.

Mix the whole lightly, and bake in the same manner as pound cake.

Watching her slice the pound cake, smiling and laughing, was exactly like the television show.

Sponge and pound cake were despatched with fearful celerity.

“Oh,” gasped Letitia fervently, and she took a bite of pound cake.

Stir in flour to render it of the consistency of pound cake.

And some sandwiches and pound cake for a snack for ourselves.

The news reports of the speech quoted that line, so it became the pound cake speech.

Word Value for pound-cake
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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