black cake

English

Noun

black cake (countable and uncountable, plural black cakes)

  1. A Caribbean fruitcake based on the English plum pudding, with plums and raisins soaked in rum.
    • 2022, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds, Hamish Hamilton, page 177:
      ‘She was telling her daughter the best way to soak the fruit for black cake one Christmas.’
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