CAKES

"CAKES" is a plural of: cake.

Date "CAKES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Prediction

Anthropomancy; by the entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy; by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy; by smoke from the altar, Capnomancy; by mice, Myomancy; by birds, Orniscopy, Ornithomancy;Anthropomancy; by the entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy; by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy; by smoke from the altar, Capnomancy; by mice, Myomancy; by birds, Orniscopy, Ornithomancy; by a cock picking up grains, Alectryomancy (or Alectromancy); by fishes, Ophiomancy; by herbs, Botanomancy; by water, Hydromancy; by fountains, Pegomancy; by a wand, Rhabdomancy; by dough of cakes, Crithomancy; by meal, Aleuromancy, Alphitomancy; by salt, Halomancy; by dice, Cleromancy; by arrows, Belomancy; by a balanced hatchet, Axinomancy; by a balanced sieve

Crosswords: CAKES

There were only two cakes left, and trust me, you do not want the one of Al Roker with the Hershey Kiss nipples (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

Hey, because of that movie, I still can't eat them little rice cakes. (The George Wendt Show; writing credit: Gary Apple; Mel Brooks)

Sometimes people put guns in cakes. (Railroaded!; writing credit: Gertrude Walker; John C. Higgins)

I can't believe we're going to Monument Island to learn about Johnny Cakes. (Sabrina the Animated Series; writing credit: Josh Stolberg)

Normal people settle disputes over cookies, cakes, and pies (Titus; writing credit: Karl-Heinz Käfer)

When the sun’s comin’ up I got cakes on the griddle (Thank God I’m A Country Boy; performing artist: John Denver)

Ape Cakes, Grape Cakes. (references; author: unknown)

Hot Cakes for Two (1926)

The Cakes of Khandipore (1915)

Tea Cakes or Cannoli (2000)

Baby Cakes (1982)

Cakes and Ale (1975)

Hot Cakes and Sausage (performing artist: Tony DeSimone Trio)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Bakery Products, Bread, Biscuits, and Cakes in Europe (reference)

• The 2001 Report on Cakes and Pastries: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

• The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Cakes and Pastries: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Bakery Products, Bread, Biscuits, and Cakes Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Bakery Products, Bread, Biscuits, and Cakes Export Supplies (reference)

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Books

• Aha Low-Fat and Luscious Desserts Cakes, Cookies, Pies, and Other Temptations: Cakes, Cookies, Pies, and Other Temptations (reference)

• Secrets of Fat-Free Baking: Over 130 Low-Fat & Fat-Free Recipes for Scrumptious and Simple-To-Make Cakes, Cookies, Brownies, Muffins, Pies, Breads, (reference)

• Cakes and Ale (Vintage International) (reference)

• Cape Cod Cookbook: 210 Traditional Recipes from Chatham Cranberry Salsa to Provincetown Crab Cakes (reference)

• The art of egg cookery : 448 unusual, appetizing, economical dishes prepared with eggs, including omelets, soufflés, mousses, meringues, baked alaskas, custards, creams, sauces, cakes, and drinks (reference)

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Periodicals

• Cakes And Sugarcraft (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Cakes - Baking w/ Sweet Addition's Karen Young Vol.BKYC (reference)

• Ranma 1/2:Wretched Rice Cakes of Love (reference)

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Five scenes from a Shaker colony illustrating the production of herb cakes. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cakes of copper after being cast, Chile] / C.I.A.A. photo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Making tortillas (patty cakes) in the streets of Guadalupe Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ice harvesting, shooting the cakes into the house. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bell Aircarft Corp. Niagara Falls, New York. Pies and cakes in the employees' cafeteria. Credit: Library of Congress.

Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. Mid-afternoon "lunch" by Long Pond where woodsmen are sluicing. On the menu that day: roast pork and dressing, boiled potatoes, turnips, baked beans, hot cakes, hot biscuits, bread, butt. Credit: Library of Congress.

Coffee and cakes taste pretty good to these San Quentin prisoners who have just given blood to the Red Cross mobile unit. Of the hundreds of men who volunteered to give blood to the bank, 150 were taken care of during the unit's four-hour visit to the pen. Credit: Library of Congress.

Salinas Valley, California. Guayule rubber cakes. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cutting the pies and cakes at the barbeque dinner, Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Alice noticed, with some surprise, that the pebbles were all turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright idea came into her head

It often happened that he breakfasted upon one of these cakes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Simple carbohydrates include sugars which are often consumed in the form of cookies, candies, or cakes. (references)

Foods that usually contain high amounts of sugar include pies, cakes, cookies, ice cream, candy, soft drinks, fruit drinks, fruit packed in syrup, commercially fruited yogurt, jams, jelly, doughnuts, and sweet rolls. (references)

Economic History

China

For wheat, the prospects for increased imports lie in China's inability to cheaply supply certain types of wheat (i.e. high protein and low protein) used to make increasingly popular Western bread, cakes and cookies. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "CAKES": be selling like hot cakes ♦ buns and cakes ♦ by dough of cakes ♦ cakes and ale ♦ cakes and pastries ♦ cakes from castor ♦ cakes from copra ♦ cakes from sesame ♦ cakes from soya ♦ cotton seed cakes ♦ fancy cakes ♦ Land o' cakes ♦ sell like hot cakes ♦ selling like hot cakes. Additional references.

Ending with "CAKES": fish-cakes, worm-cakes.

Containing "CAKES": kipling-cakes-to-bisto-giant.

Albanian

kurabie. (various references)

Bulgarian 

удоволствия (amenities, bed of roses, cakes and ale, sweets), продавам като топъл хляб (selling like hot cakes), приятен живот (cakes and ale), пасти (fancy cakes, pastry). (various references)

Chinese 

餌 (bait), 餅餌 (pastry). (various references)

Danish

svovl stoebes ud i staenger eller broed (sulphur moulded into sticks or cakes), småkager (small cakes, tea biscuit), kager af soyaboenner (cakes from soya), kager af sesamfroe (cakes from sesame), kager af ricinusfroe (cakes from castor), kager af kopra (cakes from copra), jordnødkager (ground-nut cakes), farveapparat til tops og nøgler,bomme og kager (cakes and beams, dyeing appliance for tops and yarns on bobbins), bomuldsfrøkager (cotton seed cakes), biscuits til te (small cakes, tea biscuit). (various references)

Dutch

zwavelbroden (sulphur moulded into sticks or cakes), theekoekjes (small cakes, tea biscuit), theekoekje (small cakes, tea biscuit), theegebakje (small cakes, tea biscuit), ricinuskoek (cakes from castor), pijpzwavel (sulphur moulded into sticks or cakes), perskoeken van sojabonen (cakes from soya), perskoeken van sesamzaad (cakes from sesame), perskoeken van kopra (cakes from copra), perskoeken van katoenzad (cotton seed cakes), perskoeken van grondnoten (ground-nut cakes), opgemaakt koekje (small cakes, tea biscuit), luxekoekje (small cakes, tea biscuit). (various references)

Finnish

kahvileipä (buns). (various references)

French

tourteaux de soja (cakes from soya), tourteaux de sésame (cakes from sesame), tourteaux de ricin (cakes from castor), tourteaux de coton (cotton seed cakes), tourteaux de coprah (cakes from copra), tourteaux d'arachides (ground-nut cakes), soufre moulé en canons ou en pains (sulphur moulded into sticks or cakes), pâtisserie pour le thé (small cakes), détoxification de tourteaux (detoxification of cakes), biscuit pour le thé (small cakes), appareil pour teindre mèches et filés en bobines,gâteaux et ensouples (cakes and beams). (various references)

German

Kuchen (cake, flan, gateau, mud pie). (various references)

Greek 

σουσαμόπιτα (cakes from sesame), γλύκισμα για τσάϊ (small cakes, tea biscuit), βαμβακόπιτα (cotton cake), βαφική για φυτίλι μπομπίνα στημόνι (cakes and beams, dyeing appliance for tops and yarns on bobbins), μπισκότο για τσάϊ (small cakes, tea biscuit), πλακούντες καστορέλαιου (cakes from castor), πίτα κοπρά (cakes from copra), πίτα σόγιας (cakes from soya), πίτα αραχίδων (ground-nut cakes), αποτοξίνωση πλακούντος (detoxification of cakes), θείο που διαμορφούται εις τύπους ή ράβδους (sulphur moulded into sticks or cakes). (various references)

Hungarian

aprósütemény (cookie). (various references)

Italian

dolci (confectionery, desserts, sweets). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

点心 (Chinese dessert, refreshment, Zen monk's snack). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

てんしん (changing course or direction, Chinese dessert, divine will, naivete, providence, refreshment, shifting position, Tientsin, turnover, Zen monk's snack, zenith), てんじん (celestial being, celestial maiden, Chinese dessert, God and man, heavenly gods, Michizane's spirit, nature and man, refreshment, Zen monk's snack). (various references)

Luxembourgish

gromperekichelcher (potato cakes). (various references)

Pig Latin

akescay.(various references)

Portuguese

bolos (tuck). (various references)

Romanian

se vinde ca pâinea caldã (sell like hot cakes), petreceri (cakes and ale). (various references)

Russian 

кондитерский (pastries). (various references)

Scottish

fallaid (dry meal put on cakes). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prodaje se kao alva (selling like hot cakes). (various references)

Spanish

tortas, tarta (cake, gateau, pie, tart), pasteles (pastry). (various references)

Swedish

sälja sig bra (be selling like hot cakes), kaffebröd (buns and cakes). (various references)

Turkmen 

piroЈny (r) (little cakes). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "CAKES": beefcakes, cheesecakes, coffeecakes, corncakes, cupcakes, friedcakes, fruitcakes, griddlecakes, hoecakes, hotcakes, johnnycakes, millcakes, oatcakes, pancakes, seedcakes, shortcakes, teacakes, uncakes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"CAKES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caces, cacos, cacs, cacus, caies, Caker, cakey, caki, cakie, Cales, cames, Camesi, Caskies, caues, Cayes, ccake, chakas, cike, cracy, Cskac, cyke, cykes, kakos. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: aces, cake, case, cask, kaes, keas, sack, sake.

-2 letters: ace, ask, kae, kas, kea, sac, sae, sea, sec, ska.

-3 letters: ae, as, es, ka.

+1 letter: ackees, casked, casket, crakes, creaks, haceks, sacked, sacker, screak, wackes.

+2 letters: askance, backers, backset, cackles, cakiest, calkers, cankers, caskets, comakes, dackers, hackees, hackers, hackies, hackles, jackers, jackets, jackies, lackers, lackeys, mackles, packers, packets, rackers, rackets, repacks, reracks, restack, retacks, sackers, saclike, screaks, screaky, seacock, seasick, setback, shackle, slacked, slacken, slacker, smacked, smacker, snacked, spackle, stacked, stacker, swacked, tackers, tackets, tackles, uncakes, wackoes, waesuck.