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rock cake

n
(Cookery) a small cake containing dried fruit and spice, with a rough surface supposed to resemble a rock
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Noun1.rock cake - a small cake with a hard surface said to resemble a rock
cake - baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat
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rock cake

n (Brit) (bun) → brutto ma buono
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For him, Turaki Adamawa is a god that must be appeased with the chunkiest portion of Aso Rock cake in this election cycle and nothing else would matter, including conjugal bliss and the future of the products of his collapsed marriage.
These days it has modified a bit into a kind of fruity rock cake, shaped like a plump macaroon with a face of cherries and almonds.
The pink geode rock cake has spiked sales at Nadia Cakes by nearly 25 percent, said bakery owner and founder (https://twitter.com/AbbyJimenez763?s=09) Abby Jimenez . 
Just ask Lara Mason who is currently putting the jam into jammin' and the rock cake into rock star.
Just ask Lara Mason who is currently putting the rock cake into rock star.
It was certainly worth the wait for a Fat Rascal (not a local but a cross between a scone and a rock cake) and an Engadine torte from the cake trolley while pondering our next move.
The injustice was compounded when on arrival we were all sat down in the gym/dining hall and given a rock cake and a Coronation mug filled with warm milk!
REDBEARD, Odin (text) Sarah Home (illus.) Vulgar the Viking and the Rock Cake Raiders Nosy Crow, 2012 92pp $11.99 pbk ISBN 9780857630568 SCIS 1565383
Gordon Behind Bars (C4, 9pm) Mock-shock publicity pictures have Gordon Ramsay on the wrong side of the prison gate, but rest assured the whole thing is more of a butterfly bun than a rock cake. Time it right and you can spend the whole evening in jail.
As for desserts - make sure you try some tea bread, or bara brith, and of course a Welsh cake - like a downsized version of a rock cake, with sugar sprinkled on top.
Lees Foods Plc will acquire the entire share capital of the parent company Rock Cake Ltd, incorporating its subsidiary companies Patisserie UK (Holdings) Ltd and Patisserie UK Ltd, (the trading Company), in a deal worth 2.45m [pounds sterling].
It's on the right, a few houses from the South Kensington tube station, next to a florist and a bookstore, and long familiar to my family and friends as the Rock Cake Cafe.