cake

gâteau

Aliment sucré cuit au four avec notamment de la farine, des œufs et du sucre, souvent servi lors de fêtes.

En anglais simple : 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?

Synonymes : gateau

Expressions courantes : birthday cake, chocolate cake, slice of cake

jeu d’enfant

Dans « a piece of cake », quelque chose de très facile à faire.

En anglais simple : 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?

Synonymes : breeze, cinch

Expressions courantes : piece of cake, a piece of cake

galette

Petite portion de nourriture, généralement ronde et plate, obtenue en pressant des ingrédients ensemble.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : patty

Expressions courantes : rice cake, fish cake, potato cake

crêpe, pancake

Aliment rond et plat obtenu en cuisant une pâte liquide à base de farine dans une poêle.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : pancake, griddlecake

Expressions courantes : buckwheat cake, griddle cake

pain, bloc

Morceau solide d’une substance, par exemple de savon ou de glace.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : block, bar

Expressions courantes : cake of soap, cake of ice

petit pain, galette

Petit pain cuit, souvent plat et préparé sans ingrédients qui font gonfler la pâte.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : flatbread

Expressions courantes : oatmeal cake, unleavened cake

encroûter, recouvrir

Recouvrir quelque chose d’une couche épaisse de matière qui sèche ou durcit.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : be caked with something (Her shoes were caked with mud.)

Synonymes : coat, encrust

Expressions courantes : cake something with mud, cake the surface