cake

Examples

• A1

  My grandmother is baking a chocolate cake for my birthday, and the whole house already smells absolutely wonderful.

• A1

  Would you like a slice of cake with your cup of tea, or would you prefer a biscuit instead?

• A2

  We decorated the birthday cake with fresh strawberries and little candles, and the children could hardly wait for the moment when they were finally allowed to eat it.

• A2

  Learning to bake a good cake takes practice, because if you open the oven too early or measure the flour carelessly, the whole thing can collapse in the middle.

• B1

  The English saying "you cannot have your cake and eat it" reminds us that sometimes we must choose between two desirable things, because keeping one often means giving up the other.

• B1

  After the storm, thick mud had caked onto the boots of everyone who had walked across the flooded field, and it took ages to scrape it all off.

• B2

  When she said the extra funding was "the icing on the cake", she meant that the project had already been a success and the money was simply a pleasant final bonus.

• B2

  The phrase "a piece of cake" is used to describe a task so easy that completing it requires almost no effort, much like eating a slice of something delicious.