Difference between Pastry and Cake

What is the difference between Pastry and Cake?

Pastry as a noun is a baked food group which contains items made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc. while Cake as a noun is a rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven.

Pastry

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A baked food group which contains items made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, Napoleons, puff pastries, etc.

Cake

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven.A block of any of various dense materials.A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.money

Part of speech: verb

Definition: Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.

We hope you now know whether to use Pastry or Cake in your sentence.

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