cake

pastel, tarta

Dulce hecho al horno con ingredientes como harina, huevos y azúcar, que suele servirse en celebraciones.

En inglés sencillo: A sweet food baked from ingredients such as flour, eggs, and sugar, often served at celebrations.

• I made a chocolate cake.
• We shared two slices of cake.
• Who baked the birthday cake?

Sinónimos: gateau

Expresiones frecuentes: birthday cake, chocolate cake, slice of cake

pan comido

En «a piece of cake», algo que resulta muy fácil de hacer.

En inglés sencillo: In “a piece of cake,” something that is very easy to do.

• The test was a piece of cake.
• Fixing this bike will be a piece of cake.
• Was the interview a piece of cake?

Sinónimos: breeze, cinch

Expresiones frecuentes: piece of cake, a piece of cake

tortita

Porción pequeña de comida, normalmente redonda y plana, formada al juntar y prensar ingredientes.

En inglés sencillo: A small, usually round, flat piece of food made by pressing ingredients together.

• She ate a rice cake.
• The fish cakes came with salad.
• Press the potato mixture into small cakes.

Sinónimos: patty

Expresiones frecuentes: rice cake, fish cake, potato cake

panqueque, tortita

Alimento redondo y plano hecho cocinando una mezcla líquida de harina y otros ingredientes en una sartén.

En inglés sencillo: A flat, round food made by cooking a liquid mixture of flour and other ingredients in a pan.

• He served a hot buckwheat cake.
• We ate cakes with butter and syrup.
• Turn each cake when bubbles appear.

Sinónimos: pancake, griddlecake

Expresiones frecuentes: buckwheat cake, griddle cake

pastilla, bloque

Trozo sólido de una sustancia, como jabón o hielo.

En inglés sencillo: A solid piece of a substance, such as soap or ice.

• He bought a cake of soap.
• Cakes of ice floated down the river.
• She wrapped each cake of soap in paper.

Sinónimos: block, bar

Expresiones frecuentes: cake of soap, cake of ice

panecillo, pan plano

Pan pequeño, a menudo plano, hecho normalmente sin ingredientes que hagan subir la masa.

En inglés sencillo: A small piece of baked bread, often flat and made without ingredients that help it rise.

• She baked a small oatmeal cake.
• They shared cakes of unleavened bread.
• A warm cake lay beside the hearth.

Sinónimos: flatbread

Expresiones frecuentes: oatmeal cake, unleavened cake

incrustar, cubrir

Cubrir algo con una capa gruesa de material que se seca o endurece.

En inglés sencillo: To cover something with a thick layer of material that becomes dry or hard.

• Dried mud can cake your boots.
• Blood had caked his sleeve.
• Dust cakes the windows during the dry season.

Cómo se usa: be caked with something (Her shoes were caked with mud.)

Sinónimos: coat, encrust

Expresiones frecuentes: cake something with mud, cake the surface