simnel cake made for Easter, is a type of fruit cake, similar to Christmas cake. It is distinguished by the use of marzipan or almond paste. Usually, half the raw cake mixture is put in the tin, cover

cake is a term with a long history (the word is of Viking origin, from the Old Norse kaka) and a subject with many aspects. This entry is concerned with definitions and history; another is on cake-mak

Banbury cakes are named after the town in Oxfordshire with which they have been associated since at least the 17th century. The cakes were sold from a shop there in 1638, by one Betty White according

biscuit is a word which covers a vast range of flour-based items, generally small in size, thin, and short or crisp in texture. A more precise definition is difficult, as Garrett (c.1898) discovered;