chocolate cake
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Definition
Noun: A cake that contains chocolate as a primary ingredient. This can refer to the entire cake flavored with chocolate or a cake that includes chocolate components, such as chocolate chips or frosting.
Examples of Usage
Advanced Usage
- "a piece/slice of chocolate cake": The standard way to refer to a single serving.
- Would you like a slice of chocolate cake for dessert?
- Used as a benchmark for deliciousness or indulgence in comparative phrases.
- Winning the championship was better than chocolate cake.
Variants and Related Words
- Chocolate fudge cake: A denser, richer type of chocolate cake.
- Chocolate lava cake: A dessert with a liquid chocolate center.
- German chocolate cake: A specific layered cake with a coconut-pecan frosting.
- Chocolate cupcake: A single-serving portion of cake baked in a cup-shaped container.
Synonyms
- Devil's food cake: A specific type of moist, rich chocolate cake.
- Fudge cake: Emphasizes a dense, fudge-like texture.
Related Phrases
- "Easy as chocolate cake": An idiom (less common than "easy as pie") implying something is very simple to do.
- Assembling this furniture is easy as chocolate cake.
- "Have your cake and eat it too": (Idiom) While not specific to chocolate cake, it is often used in the context of dessert to mean wanting to enjoy two desirable but mutually exclusive options.
- You can't go out every night and save money—you can't have your chocolate cake and eat it too.
Noun
- cake containing chocolate