teacake

noun10

1. •
   A baked good such as a cake or biscuit intended to be eaten with tea or at an afternoon tea.
2. •
   (UK, Ireland) A flat, round bread bun, usually containing currants, sultanas or peel and often served toasted and buttered with tea.

   • Molly poured from the teapot and Judith drank the strong hot tea and ate the buttered teacakes. — 2008
3. •
   (Northern-England) A bread roll without fruit; a barm.

   • I thought at the time that they must be deaf or daft in Sheffield. I'd noticed the same at Slack's bread shop on Staniforth Road. I had asked for a teacake and ended up with a currant breadcake. — 2011
4. •
   (UK, Ireland) A snack consisting of shortbread or wafer topped with meringue or marshmallow, coated in chocolate.

   • Sometimes there was a Tunnock's wafer or (bastard) a chocolate marshmallow teacake in its red-and-silver foil. — 2005
5. •
   (US, Southern-US) A traditional type of dense, large cookie, typically hard-baked, not particularly sweet, and with few extra fillings.

   • She liked children and kept them supplied with little teacakes or sugar cookies which the children called Duffy cakes. — 2009
6. •
   (US) A small delicate cake or pastry; a petit four.

   • The tray of French d'auberge petit fours, small frosted and decorated teacakes cut in squares with eight alternating layers of chocolate cake and chocolate icing, waits on top of the icebox. — 2007
7. •
   (Australia) A sweet cake similar to pound cake, sometimes sprinkled with cinnamon and caster sugar, often served warm.

   • Teacakes in Australia are actually pound cakes, sometimes sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon and so called just because they are eaten at teatime. — 2007
8. •
   A cake flavoured with tea.
9. •
   (Ireland) A fruit cake similar to a barmbrack (but often without yeast) flavoured with tea and whiskey, especially associated with Halloween.

   • Barm brack, a raisin-studded teacake of gargantuan proportions, is the speciality of many an Irish matron. In the right hands, it is a divine thing. Ma's hands were not the right hands — 2015
10. •
    A brick of dried tea.