WordNet
n. a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee [syn: coffeecake]
Wikipedia
Coffee cake is a sponge cake flavoured with coffee. The term can also be applied to a cake that is intended to be eaten with coffee or tea (like tea cake), offered to guests as a gesture of hospitality, or served as a brunch food. It is leavened with either baking soda (or baking powder), which results in a more cake-like texture, or yeast, which results in a more bread-like texture.
Coffee cakes are generally round and consist of two layers separated by coffee flavoured butter icing, which also covers the top of the cake. Walnuts are a common addition to coffee cakes.
Usage examples of "coffee cake".
I thanked Angela for the coffee cake offer but told her Lula and Bob and I had to keep on the job.
On the table is a basket of rye bread, an entire coffee cake, a few cheeses, a platter of cold cuts.
Afterwards they had another bottle and ate all the coffee cake, and longed to make love again, but decided it was too risky.
And then, like a miracle, I had a vision of pulling Sukie to the sink when she'd burned her hands trying to rescue the scorched coffee cake.
When I was convinced I was safe I ate the Entenmann's coffee cake to calm myself down.
They went into the Grab N'Go and picked up two twelve-packs of beer, a cellophane bag of beefalo jerky, a carton of Camels and a walnut coffee cake.
Also, she said, there was a coffee cake in the breadbox if he fancied something sweet.
And when she offered him a slice of marzipan coffee cake, just out of the oven, the priest had been only too happy to accept.