Significado de cake en inglés
cakecake1 /keɪk/ noun 
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[countable, uncountable] a soft sweet food made by baking a mixture of flour, butter, sugar, and eggsalimento dulce y esponjoso elaborado horneando una mezcla de harina, mantequilla, azúcar y huevos: 
We had cake and ice cream.Comimos pastel y helado. a chocolate cakeun pastel de chocolate2fish/rice/potato etc cake fish, rice etc that has been formed into a flat round shape and then cookedpreparación de pescado, arroz, etc., moldeada en forma redonda y plana y luego cocinada3[countable] a small block of somethingun pequeño bloque de algocake of a cake of soapuna pastilla de jabón4be a piece of cake spokenoral to be very easyser muy fácil: ‘How do you do that?’ ‘It’s a piece of cake! Watch!’—¿Cómo lo haces? —¡Es pan comido! ¡Mira!5take the cake (also take the biscuit British English) informalinformal to be worse than anything else you can imagineser lo peor que uno pueda imaginarse: I’ve heard some pretty dumb ideas, but that takes the cake!He escuchado ideas bastante tontas, pero ¡esa se lleva la palma!6have your cake and eat it British English, have your cake and eat it too American English spokenoral to have all the advantages of something without its disadvantagesobtener todas las ventajas de algo sin sus inconvenientes7a slice of the cake British English a share of the profit, help etc that is availableuna parte de los beneficios, la ayuda, etc., disponibles: Both companies expect to get a big slice of the cake.Ambas empresas esperan obtener una gran tajada del pastel. → sell like hot cakes at hot cake(1)COLLOCATIONSCOLOCACIONESverbsverbosmake/bake a cake· Let’s make a cake for his birthday.Hagamos un pastel para su cumpleaños.decorate a cake· We decorated the cake with strawberries and cream.Decoramos el pastel con fresas y crema.ice a cake British English, frost a cake American English (=cover a cake with fine sugar mixed with a liquid)· She iced her own wedding cake.Ella misma le puso el glaseado a su pastel de bodas.phrasesfrasesa piece/slice of cake· Would you like a slice of cake?¿Le gustaría un trozo de pastel?a cake recipe· Do you have any good cake recipes?¿Tienes alguna buena receta de pastel?a cake tin British English, a cake pan American English (=that you bake a cake in)· Use a 20 cm cake tin.Usa un molde para pastel de 20 cm.a cake shop· There’s a very good cake shop in the market.Hay una pastelería muy buena en el mercado.cake mix (=a mixture that you buy in a packet and use for making a cake)· If I’m feeling lazy, I sometimes use a cake mix.Cuando me da pereza, a veces uso una mezcla para pastel.types of caketipos de pastela birthday/Christmas/wedding cake (=a special cake for a birthday etc)· Lucy had twelve candles on her birthday cake.Lucy tenía doce velas en su pastel de cumpleaños.a home-made cake· Home-made cakes are much nicer than bought ones.Los pasteles caseros son mucho mejores que los comprados.a fruit cake (=one with dried fruit in it)· Fruit cakes keep for quite a long time.Los pasteles de frutas se conservan bastante tiempo.a sponge cake (=one made from flour, butter, sugar, and eggs)· It’s best to eat sponge cakes on the day you make them.Es mejor comer los bizcochos el mismo día en que se hacen.a chocolate/lemon etc cake (=a sponge cake with a chocolate etc flavour)· She’d baked a chocolate cake for me.Ella había horneado un pastel de chocolate para mí.a cream cake (=one with thick cream inside it)· I’ll get fat if I eat any more cream cakes.Voy a engordar si como más pasteles de crema.COMMON ERRORSERRORES FRECUENTES ► Don’t say ‘cook a cake’. Say make a cake or bake a cake.
Ver todas las traducciones1 [countable, uncountable] a soft sweet food made by baking a mixture of flour, butter, sugar, and eggsalimento dulce y esponjoso elaborado horneando una mezcla de harina, mantequilla, azúcar y huevos: We had cake and ice cream.Comimos pastel y helado. a chocolate cakeun pastel de chocolate2fish/rice/potato etc cake fish, rice etc that has been formed into a flat round shape and then cookedpreparación de pescado, arroz, etc., moldeada en forma redonda y plana y luego cocinada3[countable] a small block of somethingun pequeño bloque de algocake of a cake of soapuna pastilla de jabón4be a piece of cake spokenoral to be very easyser muy fácil: ‘How do you do that?’ ‘It’s a piece of cake! Watch!’—¿Cómo lo haces? —¡Es pan comido! ¡Mira!5take the cake (also take the biscuit British English) informalinformal to be worse than anything else you can imagineser lo peor que uno pueda imaginarse: I’ve heard some pretty dumb ideas, but that takes the cake!He escuchado ideas bastante tontas, pero ¡esa se lleva la palma!6have your cake and eat it British English, have your cake and eat it too American English spokenoral to have all the advantages of something without its disadvantagesobtener todas las ventajas de algo sin sus inconvenientes7a slice of the cake British English a share of the profit, help etc that is availableuna parte de los beneficios, la ayuda, etc., disponibles: Both companies expect to get a big slice of the cake.Ambas empresas esperan obtener una gran tajada del pastel. → sell like hot cakes at hot cake(1)COLLOCATIONSCOLOCACIONESverbsverbosmake/bake a cake· Let’s make a cake for his birthday.Hagamos un pastel para su cumpleaños.decorate a cake· We decorated the cake with strawberries and cream.Decoramos el pastel con fresas y crema.ice a cake British English, frost a cake American English (=cover a cake with fine sugar mixed with a liquid)· She iced her own wedding cake.Ella misma le puso el glaseado a su pastel de bodas.phrasesfrasesa piece/slice of cake· Would you like a slice of cake?¿Le gustaría un trozo de pastel?a cake recipe· Do you have any good cake recipes?¿Tienes alguna buena receta de pastel?a cake tin British English, a cake pan American English (=that you bake a cake in)· Use a 20 cm cake tin.Usa un molde para pastel de 20 cm.a cake shop· There’s a very good cake shop in the market.Hay una pastelería muy buena en el mercado.cake mix (=a mixture that you buy in a packet and use for making a cake)· If I’m feeling lazy, I sometimes use a cake mix.Cuando me da pereza, a veces uso una mezcla para pastel.types of caketipos de pastela birthday/Christmas/wedding cake (=a special cake for a birthday etc)· Lucy had twelve candles on her birthday cake.Lucy tenía doce velas en su pastel de cumpleaños.a home-made cake· Home-made cakes are much nicer than bought ones.Los pasteles caseros son mucho mejores que los comprados.a fruit cake (=one with dried fruit in it)· Fruit cakes keep for quite a long time.Los pasteles de frutas se conservan bastante tiempo.a sponge cake (=one made from flour, butter, sugar, and eggs)· It’s best to eat sponge cakes on the day you make them.Es mejor comer los bizcochos el mismo día en que se hacen.a chocolate/lemon etc cake (=a sponge cake with a chocolate etc flavour)· She’d baked a chocolate cake for me.Ella había horneado un pastel de chocolate para mí.a cream cake (=one with thick cream inside it)· I’ll get fat if I eat any more cream cakes.Voy a engordar si como más pasteles de crema.COMMON ERRORSERRORES FRECUENTES ► Don’t say ‘cook a cake’. Say make a cake or bake a cake.cakecake2 verb 1be caked with/in something to be covered with a layer of something soft or wet that becomes thick and hard when it driesestar cubierto de una capa de algo blando o húmedo que se vuelve gruesa y dura al secarse: Our boots were caked with mud.Nuestras botas estaban cubiertas de barro.2[intransitive] if a substance cakes, it forms a thick hard layer when it driessi una sustancia se apelmaza, forma una capa gruesa y dura al secarse
1be caked with/in something to be covered with a layer of something soft or wet that becomes thick and hard when it driesestar cubierto de una capa de algo blando o húmedo que se vuelve gruesa y dura al secarse: Our boots were caked with mud.Nuestras botas estaban cubiertas de barro.2[intransitive] if a substance cakes, it forms a thick hard layer when it driessi una sustancia se apelmaza, forma una capa gruesa y dura al secarse