shortcake
A sweet cake or biscuit (crumbly leavened bread) typically made with flour, sugar, salt, butter, milk or cream, and sometimes eggs, and leavened with baking powder or baking soda.
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Always served with a little home made shortcake biscuit! I don’t eat shortbread myself but a lovely touch imo!
German pot roast and macaroni, green peas, sliced cucumbers, peach shortcake, and iced tea
I'm a single-issue voter, and that issue is Strawberry Shortcake flavored vapes. Concentration camps for anyone opposed
Five shows to get to know me - Blue's Clues - Lost - Sonic Prime - The Super Mario Bros Super Show - Strawberry Shortcake
Sponge cake based, like strawberry shortcake or Boston Cream (yes, it’s culinarily a cake) or molten lava cake. Sponge cakes are nice and moist. #NotAloneTalk
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A sweet cake or biscuit (crumbly leavened bread) typically made with flour, sugar, salt, butter, milk or cream, and sometimes eggs, and leavened with baking powder or baking soda.
“German pot roast and macaroni, green peas, sliced cucumbers, peach shortcake, and iced tea”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I'm a single-issue voter, and that issue is Strawberry Shortcake flavored vapes. Concentration camps for anyone opposed”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Five shows to get to know me - Blue's Clues - Lost - Sonic Prime - The Super Mario Bros Super Show - Strawberry Shortcake”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Sponge cake based, like strawberry shortcake or Boston Cream (yes, it’s culinarily a cake) or molten lava cake. Sponge cakes are nice and moist. #NotAloneTalk”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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A dessert made with such a cake, typically having layers of cream and fruit.
“Always served with a little home made shortcake biscuit! I don’t eat shortbread myself but a lovely touch imo!”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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