eccles cake

1. 1.

   a flat round cake of sweetened pastry filled with dried fruit

   Broadercake

   United Kingdom

Questions about eccles cake

What does eccles cake mean?

eccles cake means "a flat round cake of sweetened pastry filled with dried fruit".

Is eccles cake a common word?

eccles cake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.