upside-down cake

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   batter baked atop a layer of sweetened fruit then turned upside down so fruit is on top

   Synonymsskillet cake

   Broadercake

Questions about upside-down cake

What does upside-down cake mean?

upside-down cake means "batter baked atop a layer of sweetened fruit then turned upside down so fruit is on top".

What is another word for upside-down cake?

Close synonyms include skillet cake. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is upside-down cake a common word?

upside-down 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.