Definition of "coffeecake" [cof•fee•cake]

• A cake or sweetened bread, often containing nuts or raisins. (noun)

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• "I would think a ring-pan would work for a coffeecake too."
• "This would go best if accompanied by some homemade coffeecake."
• "While they talked the friend offered him coffee (coffeecake, whispered my brain) and himself sipped some coffee (coffeecake) and our hero looked around the coffee-room (coffeecake) …until finally I just had to get up and look up coffeecake recipes."