teacake

== English == === Alternative forms === tea-cake === Etymology === From tea +‎ cake. === Pronunciation === === Noun === teacake (plural teacakes) A baked good such as a cake or biscuit intended to be eaten with tea or at an afternoon tea. (UK and Ireland, chiefly Southern England) A flat, round bread bun, usually containing currants, sultanas or peel and often served toasted and buttered with tea. (Northern England, chiefly Cumbria, Lancashire and West Yorkshire) A bread roll without fruit; a barm. (UK and Ireland, chiefly Scotland) A snack consisting of shortbread topped with meringue or marshmallow, coated in chocolate. (US, especially Southern US) A traditional type of dense, large cookie, typically hard-baked, not particularly sweet, and with few extra fillings. (chiefly US) A small delicate cake or pastry; a petit four. (Australia) A sweet cake similar to pound cake, sometimes sprinkled with cinnamon and caster sugar, often served warm. A cake flavoured with tea. (Ireland) A fruit cake similar to a barmbrack (but often without yeast) flavoured with tea and whiskey, especially associated with Halloween. Synonym: tea brack A brick of dried tea. For quotations using this term, see Citations:teacake. ==== Derived terms ==== chocolate teacake ==== Related terms ==== tea bread tea loaf ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== coffee cake crumpet muffin