Meaning & use
griddle cake
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Meaning
nouncountable
A flat, round cake made from batter and cooked on a hot surface, such as a griddle or frying pan.
Grammar: Countable: one griddle cake, two griddle cakes. Often used in the plural.
Patterns
- a griddle cake
- griddle cakes
For breakfast, we had griddle cakes with butter and syrup.
She flipped the griddle cake carefully so it wouldn't burn.
The recipe makes about twelve griddle cakes.
Word forms
| plural | griddle cakes |
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Common combinations
- make griddle cakes
- My grandmother used to make griddle cakes on Sunday mornings.
- serve griddle cakes
- They serve griddle cakes with fresh berries.
- a stack of griddle cakes
- He ordered a stack of griddle cakes and a cup of coffee.
Synonyms and how they differ
- pancake
- Pancake is the more common word in American English; griddle cake is a regional or slightly old-fashioned term for the same thing.
- hotcake
- Hotcake is another word for a pancake, often used in the phrase 'selling like hotcakes'.
Commonly confused: griddle cake or griddle?
griddle cake vs griddle
A griddle is the flat cooking surface, not the cake itself. A griddle cake is the food you cook on a griddle.
Practice
Choose the sentence that uses 'griddle cake' correctly.
Choose one answer.
A griddle cake is the food, and a griddle is the cooking surface. You cook the cake on the griddle, not the other way around.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “griddle cake”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.