The baker behind the counter has just finished decorating a cake. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The baker at El Caribe brought in a huge sheet cake on his shoulder. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The boy picked up the knife and was about to cut into the cake when he stopped. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I asked the cook if he had any cake or anything and he came up with some pound cake and some fruit cocktail. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light began to fade, and Dorothy called them in for more cake and lemonade, and then it was time to calm down the girls, who were cranky, say good-bye, and start back to Harlem. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was way too old for the toy but baked one cake to show Gay how it worked. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I took the candles from my pocket and planted them in the cake. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She was just pulling a cake off the rack. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I prefer Vinolia,” she said haughtily, and she bought a cake of that. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

After the meal, there’s the hush of a surprise, and then someone turns out the lights, and the owner of Bambino’s, Sue, appears in the doorway with a cake. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My mother is British, but she probably thinks a Victoria sponge is a cleaning product, not an airy cake filled with jam. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Plus, you know, cake is pretty much my favorite thing.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I imagine eating rice and meat and fruit and cakes and pies. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his bedroom he dampened a handkerchief in the water and loosened the caked blood and dirt on the girl’s face. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A pot of tea and an assortment of cakes sat on the bottom layer of the basket, to finish off the dinner. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

For a couple of years after I got sick, she used to bring me an icecake on my birthday. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned and reached and a plate of crisp hot cakes lay between Tom’s hands. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

What Will did know was that it had been an amazing day—giants! monsters!—and that all he needed to make his adventure complete was an enormous helping of cake. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I pictured myself eating three-tiered chocolate cake for breakfast throughout the entire month, staying up an hour after bedtime writing high-caliber stories and poems. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two Chinese food cartons, one with bits of fried rice stuck to the sides, a white plastic fork sprouting from the top, and the other with some sort of sauce caked around the rim. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It seemed to him that he had already frozen, that pieces could be broken off him, as one chips bits from a cake of ice. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I remember thinking that the disinfectant smell of the hospital ruined the cake’s taste. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In silence Eliot and Mrs. Sen ate the last few clam cakes in the bag. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Everything. Stuffed cabbage, potato dumplings, black currant cakes, blini with lemon zest. I can’t wait to see Zoya’s face when I come walking into the Little Palace.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“That’ll be a piece of cake,” Ben, said, grinning at his father. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Helene Wright had mellowed with the cane, waving away apologies for drinks spilled on her rug and paying no attention whatever to the chocolate cake lying on the arm of her red-velvet sofa. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The men ate first, and when it was the women’s turn, the coconut cakes were all gone. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“To ... to help me figure it out, about the cake.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

At these gatherings, the host serves roast pig, duck, beef, sweet cakes, and beautiful candies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when Natalie refuses to eat one bite of supper, so stuffed is she with lemon cake, my father knows too. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he bought a round red lacquered comfit dish with a cover, and in this he put sesame cakes and larded sweets and he put the box on the table. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

We’re at some fancy bakery in the Pearl District, browsing through cakes, scones, and cookies. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The boy said in casual Japanese that the cakes weren’t very good, but arigatō anyway. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They had finished eating the main meal and she was enjoying a turtle-shaped cake filled with sweet and soft red bean paste, a taste not known to her before. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Garrett slides into his seat, setting a cardboard cake box on the table in front of us. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Kelvin and A’Leia, on the steps, their heads close together, stuffing themselves with cake. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Seven took a bite of her mother’s famous pineapple-jam cake and scowled. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Jemima? Pinky? Primrose?” and she served each doll a slice of invisible cake on an invisible plate, chattering happily as she did so. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She came out with two bunches of carrots, as well as the cakes in a bowl. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His face was a stubble of caked blood, his one white eye shot through with red, spit flecking the corners of his mouth. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Gimpy was behind the counter wrapping a birthday cake for one of our regular customers—a cake that sells for $3.95. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The cake was placed in front of him, and Palmer found that he could neither move nor breathe. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“How many cakes? The price of sugar is still high. How about apple bread instead? That’s cheaper to make.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved running and playing outside, even sinking my feet into the marsh’s pluff mud, which was warm and soft as cake batter. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Jeannine picked up the last cake on her plate, slowly bit into it, and licked the icing off her fingers. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put down the cake knife and locked her fingers behind her head, then arched her back as if trying to work out some deep tension. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The other end was sharpened and caked with gray dirt. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Melanthios darted out to light a blaze, drew up a bench, threw a big sheepskin over it, and brought a cake of lard. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No problem. Just hang and chill. We’ve got that chocolate mousse cake with the raspberries on top for dessert, too.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t really do birthday parties or birthday cake back home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Nate took the remains of the cake to the clubhouse, and I sat with Allen until the ambulance came. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kyle hoped there might be some kind of cake for dinner, too, because he and his teammates definitely had something to celebrate. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

But only four days before my birthday, we heard terrible news and Mother canceled the cake. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Together we scrutinized the twelve lemon cakes from the delicatessen shop. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He lifted a hand and was surprised to find caked blood and a raised ridge in a line across the middle. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Satisfied?” he said, cake crumbs spewing from his lips. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Slices of mango glistening on a pie, small brown cakes swelling with raisins. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ll say a prayer for you, Officer,” said one pious Muslim whom I had stopped from taking extra coffee cake early that summer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I stepped out to the sidewalk, the librarians were waiting with balloons and cake. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Up ahead sat the fat black mother cat enjoying the warm sun on her fat black back, licking a paw as if there were cake batter on it. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Neither guy blinked at being instructed to join up with a reformed gangster who smelled strongly of urinal cakes to prank a former heavyweight champion prizefighter. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was expensive to have huge cakes of ice brought up to their hotel rooms, to cool the penguins. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

They all ate rather hurriedly and then, after a hasty chorus of “Happy Birthday” and much gulping of cake, the party broke up. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Gimli took up one of the cakes and looked at it with a doubtful eye. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s close to nine o’clock, and I can sense I’m not getting a single crumb of that cake. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Dry mud caked his tawny hair and grimed his face. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the evening I spread the jam on the cakes and eat some. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 158th Street the cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He pushed the cake box into Riccio's hands and strode on. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She poured tea and served cakes without getting a speck on her clothes, her posture always perfect, her smile dazzling. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When she’d been little, it had been easy—a smile from her father, the tightrope raised another foot, orange cakes wrapped in white paper. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Soon we were inside, coats off, helping to set up tables of sandwiches, cake, beans, and cottage cheese. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He said his school was a “piece of cake.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He held her for a while longer until, finally, Olanna sat down and cut another slice of cake for herself. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He stares straight at the lens, the knife in his hand, poised, for the camera’s benefit, over the cake, his face shining with impending adolescence. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Martin and Ethel would invite a neighbor or two for cake to dispel any gossip or speculation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They blink in confusion and terror at a mass of flaming candles on their Slammer cake, perhaps more candles than they’ve ever seen on one of their own birthday cakes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, that part was fine by me—that lemon-filled cake was the bomb! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

They were caked and scabbed with dried blood. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When someone wanted a birthday cake, they came to her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

There was more caked in his golden hair and spattered over Sansa's legs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“My father, he was a fox. No more questions tonight. You want some coffee cake?” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stabbed the last pieces of her cake with her fork. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The air is filled with laughter, John Coltrane, Jay-Z, and the smell of salmon, plus scents of every pie and cake imaginable. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

I always say, there’s nothing like fresh hot cake and cold milk to make a body feel better on a funeral day. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I half expected to see vendors selling cinnamon water, boiled sweets, and currant cakes, and a conjure man who could juggle two balls and a stool. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Izzi finishes off her moon cake and stares at mine so intently that I hand it over. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She cuts the cake in small pieces, enough to go around. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was bringing him a cake for Christmas. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did the proper cooking, and I did near everything else, like washing pots and plates and beating eggs till my arms fell off for Madam’s almond jumbles and plum cakes with icing. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sell mostly to other vendors, collecting twelve ounces of rice for five sweet cakes or ten cookies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up the wet, winding boardwalks and through stretches of mud that cake my hiking boots in sludge. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The birthday is celebrated at suppertime with cake and presents. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

But nobody likes to watch someone else eat cake. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He takes a cab from the airport to the hospital, shocked by how much colder it is in Ohio than in New York, by the thick layer of snow that cakes the ground. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I set an uneaten slice of blue cake on my dresser. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

My mother’s smile rises like a sweet golden cake. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The night would go on, the Mameluke sword would cut the cake, the general would speak, and tradition would be served. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I dont know. We going to have thirty three candles on a cake, anyway. Little cake. Wont hardly hold them. Hush up. Come on back here.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she’s the one to get the company, the Wives rustling up the stairs, clucking and cheerful; she gets the cakes and pies, the jelly, the bouquets of flowers from their gardens. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lots of ladies brought cake or pie—like if somebody had died. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Mabelee closed her eyes and opened her mouth, and August laid the cake on her tongue. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t care that the neighbors would want to come around with cakes and platters of cold meat, and drink ale to the rememory of Miss Mary Finch of Tew, Rhode Island. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t switch on the light, but she advanced into the room and picked up a cake of soap from the nearest basin. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could make you a cake. Have to be hotcake mix because that’s what I have. Plenty of syrup and a candle on top.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I let them take turns shooting marbles at my lunar-surface cake pan. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

His mouth was open and someone else's lips pressed against his, blowing into his mouth with breath that tasted like lemon cake. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He offered his slice of cake as a peace offering. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Lemoncello insists that everybody be given balloons and cake. Cake has no place in a library. Frosting is sticky. Sticky fingers damage books.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She had given him her cakes in the train station, and her shoes, and he had repaid her by stealing rice! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mom would distribute the cakes she’d made the day before to the other sick children—some for the boys’ ward and some for the girls’. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Better start yellin’ then, before they run out of cakes, bee.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

There were sliced bread and steak and fried potatoes and gravy and string beans and spinach and a huge piece of chocolate cake. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Seven cracked a small smile before cleaning up the dishes, putting the leftover cake away, and going to her room for the night. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Little had provided him with a doll’s size toothbrush, a doll’s size cake of soap, a doll’s size washcloth, and a doll’s comb—which he used for combing his whiskers. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You are not knowing how to bake German chocolate cake?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Soil was caked under his fingernails, and he was trying to clean them out in the kitchen sink. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We brought him a batch of Mama’s peanut candy and half of a pound cake. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was torn and greasy and caked with mud, but it was still plastic. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Silver offers me a fluffy white rice cake, which tastes like a salty cloud. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A cake of ash in the roadway inches deep and hard going with the cart. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

After the ceremony, a piece of the wedding cake was wrapped up for the bride to bring to the groom’s ancestral home for the second part of the wedding. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was her specialty—more like cake than bread, moist and rich and sweet. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the Hall Draco Malfoy’s eagle owl had landed on his shoulder, carrying what looked like his usual supply of sweets and cakes from home. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“That doesn’t look like a tree, it looks like a cake.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then it’s time for me to blow out the candles on my birthday cake. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

A bunch of us take turns making game references that fly under her radar—like the kid who asks if there’ll be cake when we’re done. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

A man with hair as slick as a pregreased cake pan pushed an enormous flour barrel on a wheeled platform to fill the smaller containers at each station. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Tanaka nearly choked on his whiskey in front of eighty-five guests while I couldn’t stop staring at the cake and, in my shock, asked loudly, “Well, are we still going to eat it?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You look like you need a week’s worth of cakes. Didn’t Eliza feed you?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if I roll the little brush with my tongue and chew it to a point and dip it in the muddy cake, the one in the little red box, will you teach me? The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Viola came in wearing a clean white apron and bearing a lemon pound cake on a silver tray. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

His tail was caked with blood, and his struggles made new blood flow from his wound. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The man stopped looking through the bars at the boy and looked down at the cake. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cake smell got stronger and sweeter, and then I saw the pink house. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She smiled at Pita, who was shoveling cake into her mouth without saying a word. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And then one of the women began to plant white candles into the cake. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Grandpa told her to quit the foolishness and cut the cake. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Two cheery young girls serve from behind a counter displaying a good selection of cakes and pastries. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Not only were there solid rice cakes, the best journey food, but also a surprise: a packet of gokkam—sweet dried persimmons. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Serena brings out a plate of carrot cake and banana bread. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but I don’t want to put them in that nasty cake.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad reached back sometimes and I gave him a chunk of the dense cake. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

That made the stove even more of a joy than it had been, because as I got the fire going I realized that I could have a real birthday cake, layers and all. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

As we step away from the cake, Kareem edges closer to me and puts his hand on the small of my back. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I was in the living room, playing patty- cake and reciting the alphabet and singing all the songs he’d belt out when he came home from the pub late at night, waking the neighbors. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He gave the rice cake to a dog and remained without food. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

A ravid, its arm-long fangs festooned in beads and tassels, rose up on its hind legs to lick a cake with its long, rasping tongue. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Think of something you could never get at home. What do you want, an ice cream cake?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

How else were we supposed to deliver the cake to the clubhouse? The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

That very morning, while Toby was off on his airport run, Cady had baked him a yellow cake with chocolate frosting. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He skipped off toward the cake shop, which, a few steps away, filled the alley with its wonderful baking smells. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Compared to the other modifications Leo had made to the ship, the grabber arm was a piece of cake. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then she cuts a few slices of cake. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It is red, raw, and covered by a thin cake of dried blood. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom says, “You give me cooking lessons. Jewish apple cake, charoset for Passover, challah—the recipe and the prayers. I want to learn. Will you teach me, Nadya?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what the Erudite are always bragging about. Dauntless cake is much better.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Everywhere Cady looked there were bakers and their guests, dashing from here to there, clanging cake pans together and hollering about butter. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Gay had ordered a cake decorated in the autumn colors I had decided were my favorites. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“That old bland thing again? Why them white folks like the lady-fingers so much? I can make a dozen cakes taste better ’n that.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Miss Inez leaned over the glass case and forgot about her cakes. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The runners went to Jockey after they were done with their races, and he dropped a piece of ginger cake onto their palms, no matter what they placed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I love the love, but can we please try the cake now? Serenity and I need some sugar.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach swishes at the thought of having a sweet cake all to myself. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman with a face caked in half-wet baby powder came out of the house. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

On the back step, Miss Celia dumps the cake in a paper sack. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The kitchen smelled amazing—like cake batter and chocolate. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then that enormous tongue poked out and spun clockwise around his face, squeegeeing the icing and cake away in one sloppy swipe. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dimple groaned and clutched her head, feeling like that ancient pressure cooker Mamma still used when she made idli cakes. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

"I'll go by myself then. It will be ever so much nicer that way. Lady and I will eat all the lemon cakes and just have the best time without you." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Some days it was as though someone had put me in Grandma’s cake mixer, but I was struggling to be still, not to spin or shudder or shake. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

People awoke in the mornings to find their eyebrows caked with mud, and somehow brown crud deposits turned up on toothbrushes and in refrigerator ice cubes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the family devoured the chocolate cake with a passion they hadn’t shown for the rest of the meal, as if a great pall had been lifted. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There was caked blood and a big scab along her shin. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pippo’s picked the chocolate chips out of the cake,” Meggie heard her whisper as she looked anxiously up at Mo. When his eyes twinkled at her she disappeared behind Fenoglio’s back, giggling. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Some cigarettes and some cakes from Rocky's. I think I remember the ones. I didn't know what—" He swallows. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I use all of Donna’s soaps that smell and look like cake. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

To Kaede, it looked like a white bean cake, but there was something different about its texture. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lyra got up, taking her spice cake with her, and no one noticed; Lee Scoresby was already dealing the cards, and every suspicious eye was on his hands. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It certainly worked. And it says here, the screening will happen ‘immediately after cake’?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her furry snow boots were by the door and her white fur hat was in the center of the coffee table like a cake. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He even claimed to have been there on one of his higher flights, and to have seen the everlasting fields of clover and the linseed cake and lump sugar growing on the hedges. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

As I breathed, dirt caked my throat and settled in my lungs. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She considered whether to take an extra cake of rosin along with new strings. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Something like our wedding cake was, with a girl in white on top...and a boy.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was like a wedding cake, made in three blindingly white tiers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They had lemonade, peanut butter sandwiches, and a kind of pound cake with red jam. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What kind of cake is that I smell?” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Gramma always seemed to have something baking: biscuits, com bread, cookies, cake, pies. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

But at last they were on the way, Marly carrying her little flowerpot and Mother holding a huge cake on which she had put the words, Welcome Home, Mr. Chris! Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Angel cake, that melted in the mouth, and his rather stodgier companion bursting with peel and raisins. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The instant enthusiasm for the idea drove from Eddie’s brain the admission that he had never baked a cake. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bake until a tester inserted in cake refuses to come out. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One was of a Big Bird birthday cake and my dad singing loud, Nan and Momma laughing and covering their ears. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

There were glass bowls of cookies and candies, but I could not take my eyes off the cake in the middle. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I broke up the two rice cakes and we ate in silence, depressed by the ceaseless rain. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. van Daan would like a cake, Dussel can think of nothing but seeing his Charlotte, and Mother is dying for a cup of real coffee. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The prospect of honey cakes and dates, and all the dried fish he could eat, lifted even Ranofer’s spirits. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

"I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s the most beautiful birthday cake I ever had,” Julie said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The boys dragged out the cake and ice cream as long as they could. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

We had no soap, but at least I was able to wash away the caking dirt of Birkenau. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The menu was always the same: fried chicken, collard greens, potato salad, boiled okra, sliced tomatoes, corn bread, and chocolate or coconut cake. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie’s father had supplied a nearly endless amount of cakes and rolls and sweets from his bakery. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The gown was too long and the hem was caked with dried mud. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Except I don’t know who brought the cakes today, because Leah never shows up for lunch at all. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I let him have a quick nibble of the cake just to whet his appetite. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The woman ignored him and looked at the broken and empty cake box on the bar, saying, “Somebody’s been having a picnic in here. Goddammit. I already told you people about ants and rats.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took us two days: chopping candied fruit, mixing the cake by hand, and lining cake tins with cut-up brown paper bags. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Because there’s perfectly good food in this house. Steaks for the dogs, cream for Pasha’s Favorite, cakes for those awful visitors.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

If ravids could walk here side by side with men and women and even share their cakes, then maybe godspawn could, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Grandpa needs to leave soon, so let’s do your cake now.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

An angel food cake is baked from scratch. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Full up,” grunted the undersecretary, reaching for the last cake. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I concentrated on a hoe cake spread thick with honey. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had brought with me a rock cake which I had pocketed while having tea with Grandmamma the day before. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

For three hours I listened to her worry about cake flavors. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A small bakery, its windows filled with decorated cakes and layered pastries, also did business in the second part of the shopping center. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snow caked his legs almost to the knee, and Bran had felt him stagger more than once. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He hates that The bride and groom Are the first to cut Into the cake, Sugar heaven for The three baby teeth Still in his head. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingernails caked in soil, Fadi was about to call it quits when the earth loosened around a small tin box in their twenty-sixth pit. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

And they pried pieces of baked-too-fast sunshine cake from the roofs of their mouths and looked once more into the boy’s eyes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the bags were gathered on the kitchen floor, I started pulling groceries onto the kitchen table—half a watermelon, a coffee cake, milk, and ground beef. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The sorceress backed away, her hairdo bent sideways like a collapsed cake. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The donut cake was so delicious that for a second I forgot it was still a sad day. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The next day I stole the best cake I could find from a bakery. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Problem was, I have to talk to myself when I make a caramel cake or else I get too jittery. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The ladies who visited her mother and ate cake? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was given cakes and cookies and rides to school. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“What are they, Hagrid?” asked Harry, trying to sound interested rather than revolted, but putting down his rock cake all the same. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The doctor finished his chocolate and nibbled the little fallen pieces of sweet cake. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

His expression quickly changed, and he ate all the rest of the cake with relish. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

With Sally snuggled tightly around his neck, he made his way through the rain to the biggest cake he’d ever seen—a fifty-layer-high masterpiece of sugary wonder. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

As if tall girls and cakes and clothes were the worst things in the world. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Now you can get back to your schoolwork,” Madam Maryam said as we finished our cake. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A very pretty young girl with long blond hair rushed up to him and pressed a warm cake into his hand and he was embarrassed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he said it nice, and then swatted her on the behind as she walked past him to go get a plate for the cake. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The dog had his head buried in the display case and was licking an enormous white cake. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He took it, though he didn’t know muffins from crumb cake. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It's actually warm enough for hoodies and pajama pants and leftover ice cream cake and Scattergories. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I did this by putting cake crumbs in my hair. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I had shared a cake with my friends. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Red and crispy roasted pig, brown and golden duck, steaming dumplings, plump fried shrimp, and all kinds of sweet cakes! First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took my soaking brush in hand, stroked my gold cake, and a cat streaked out on my paper in one lightning stroke, whiskers, tail, meow and all! How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I’d eaten the cake, drunk the Tonic, given up the necklace, slaved for my stepmother, let Olive suck me dry. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was caked with the night dirt of Georgia and South Carolina. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are bands of bagpipers in kilts, and things like big cakes, with people on them waving, that slide past on wheels. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw on the counter a lemon cake my mother had made for the Memorial Day picnic. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The cake was the single obscenity in an atmosphere of rigorous decorum. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cake covered in thick chocolate frosting sat on the counter. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It tasted good, like cake, with a sweetish and smooth flavor he had never thought bread could have. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not that I was about to put candles on a cake and burn the place down. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I jammed one whole cake in my mouth and the rough crumbs scratched the insides of my jaws, and if I hadn’t had to swallow, it would have been a dream come true. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when Andrew himself had a birthday he had two candles on his cake for every year, instead of only one. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He imagined all the cakes he could buy for one hundred thousand lire. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The outer cakes are mouldy, still it is possible to eat them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mami calls, “Un segundito,” from the kitchen, and in a moment, she comes back in, carrying a birthday cake in the shape of the island, with thirteen candles flaming away on top. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Who would like a piece of cherry cake?” she asked. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I sat at the little wooden table in my mama’s kitchen eyeing that caramel cake on the cooling rack, waiting to be iced. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Adele made a big fuss over Luke’s third birthday in July with a homemade cake, balloons, and fancy hats for us and her grandchildren. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She dug into it with her fingers, but of course there was no cake, only more flowers, but she pantomimed eating it without sharing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

All she needed to do was to close her eyes, and she could imagine the absolutely perfect cake for any person, anywhere. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And then Miss Lulu asked me if I liked angel-food cake. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Remember the chocolate cake study, the one that looked at the nutrition choices made by someone asked to remember numbers? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The only photograph of Shadow as a kid that Laura had liked enough to frame showed a serious child with unruly hair and dark eyes standing beside a table, laden high with cakes and cookies. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Father asked if I told you about the cake. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Stairs here, mind yourself, one down, two, there you are, easy as cake . . .” The ocean. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Their arms were piled up with the delicious dark cakes. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I was sorry that I didn’t get to taste the birthday cake. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted a birthday cake with her family, and she wanted Layla to sing “Happy Birthday” in French like she’d done every year since she started learning the language in eighth grade. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Every year my birthday cake, my Easter basket, my Christmas candy canes always had to be blue. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Rosaleen offered to bake the wedding cake layers, and Violet and Queenie were going to decorate it with a “rainbow theme.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squeezed lemons for lemonade while Mama Ya-Ya frosted the cake. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Miss Sarah heard this last as she came through the hall with the big plate of sliced cake. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And I said, “Is it a long cake with a square cross section which is divided into equally sized, alternately colored squares?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jane and Michael, though they did not want to miss the crumpets and the cakes, couldn’t help laughing too, because Mr. Wigg’s mirth was so infectious. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

‘And wouldn’t that be lovely,” said Uncle, “if we could afford to eat cake.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Sul Ross always got sick on cake, whether watched by me or not. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The plaster had caked hard as the mud walls of the Lamb Men, and like those walls it cracked easily. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But the air smells like toasted marshmallows and funnel cake and Jamie Merrick is here, so this is already one of the highlights of my life. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He takes out the crumbling cake and offers it to me. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Sodas! We forgot to get sodas to go with the cake!” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ron, full of turkey and cake and with nothing mysterious to bother him, fell asleep almost as soon as he’d drawn the curtains of his four-poster. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It’s the poison icing on the lousy cake. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Almost at once she was back again staggering under the weight of an enormous round chocolate cake on a china platter. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

One angel food cake with chocolate icing dripping down its sides—Lucas’s favorite. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When the first one was released, Christina charmed one of the cooks in the Dauntless kitchens, and he let us try some cake batter. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Amid the welcome confusion of cups and cakes a certain physical decency established itself. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “I’m telling! That cake was for Sunday.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Everybody gets birthdays. You mean you never had cake or candles or stuff?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They were caked with black dirt, his nails cracked and broken from scraping at the frozen earth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then I stalked downstairs to the kitchen and laid out three different snack cakes, agonizing over which one would provide the best musical energy boost. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My face was caked with soot, my eyes ringed with grief from the things they had seen. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The cream’s pleasant tang complemented the honeyed taste and spongy texture of the cake layers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He had practiced talking about his mother selling kernels at the store and buying the cake makings, his little brother and sisters being all right, no strangers coming past, not finding Sounder’s body. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also had ridiculous, garish makeup caked on her face, and an elaborate, upswept hairdo. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They sat down to eat right away—cold chicken, thick slices of ham and cheese, potato salad, macaroni salad, bread, plenty of lemonade, a seven-layer cake. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dust was caked on her skin and piled on her shoulders as if she’d taken a shower at the bottom of an hourglass. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They bought him glasses with rectangular wire rims and caked his hair with endless product so that he had a kind of curly, mussy 'do like the coolest kids at school. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I sucked them in and gobbled them up like they were Mrs. V’s cherry cake. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, she was carrying a large slice of cake on a plate. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Three days after we opened for business, every chair in the front room was filled, the air thick again with arguments, tobacco smoke, and the smell of fresh coffee and cakes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milo looked at the great assortment of cakes, which were being eaten almost as quickly as anyone could read them. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I place the full glass on the table next to Dray’s cake. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Janna, I made your favorite, salmon cakes,” Mom calls from too close to the door, her breathing, uneven and stressed, belying her chipper words. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“There’s the cake. Let’s get a shot before they cut it.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He looked like a figure out of a Tarzan movie; he was dressed in animal bones, shells, bladders and skins, and his fat body and deadpan face were caked with red clay. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy sets the cake on the patio table, and everybody crowds around it and Seven. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Curious, Aru took one of the cakes and popped the whole thing in her mouth. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s like a beautiful cake baked for a wedding that never happened. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

"It's her birthday today, and I saved some money and bought her a chocolate cake. Would you like a slice?" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He smeared whipped cream over his second piece of cake. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I’d left a few things, too—notably, the oatmeal, which I didn’t like anyway, and the more disgusting looking of the Little Debbie cakes, which is to say all of them. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were no cakes set out on window ledges, either, but Lazlo had never really expected that. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I rode a little motorbike and blew out candles on a birthday cake. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

His body was caked in mud, wet and dirty. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birthday party tonight just gone be the family and I got to get the cakes made. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The soles of my shoes were still caked with chicken manure, but I didn’t care. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“These are Mary’s honey cakes. Cakes for the Queen of Heaven,” August said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He threw the cake back at the shop, and it vaporized in the light. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The tea and the cakes and the songs—all of it—had meant nothing. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In the morning the woman told the boy that she wanted him to walk to town, to the jail behind the courthouse, and take the cake to his father. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You wolfed down two slices of cake, too. With extra chocolate sauce.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He'd crushed the cake into a sticky mush in his hand. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“I know you can hear me. And I warn you I shall tie a knot in your nose for every hole in this cake. Understand?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A dark ribbon of blood caked his left temple. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I picked at some flea-bite scabs on my calves, which were split and caked with dried mud and hardened blood. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My aunt always brings this cake for our Fourth of July barbeque where she puts strawberries and blueberries on whipped cream to make an American flag,” Emily says. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She rummaged under the counter and brought out a package of chocolate-covered cakes that looked exactly like Ding Dongs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Usually after service we went down to the basement and had cake, fried or baked chicken, and string beans. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

This is what he told me: “Piece of cake.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I could feel the dried blood caked on my face. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I stuck a handful of rice cakes in my mouth and started munching. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The walls were decorated with shelves of cookbooks but several tables were loaded down with trays of cookies, cakes, ice cream, and fruit! Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“No, you might bring me some tea, Robert, in the library. Nothing like cakes or scones. Just tea and bread-and-butter.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

You would almost certainly be guaranteed the first slice of cake. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Henry asks, examining a spoon with peanut butter caked on it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

His feet were cracked and caked in dried mud; he had fought without shoes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The shop owner had just finished setting up a tidy pyramid of fresh-baked sweets: golden egg-flour cakes, the insides probably stuffed with sweet beans or pineapple jelly. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Weasley had sent him a scarlet sweater with the Gryffindor lion knitted on the front, also a dozen home-baked mince pies, some Christmas cake, and a box of nut brittle. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mud flats near the banks, caking to dry clay, smelled of death. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

After baptism Philomena said she had tea and ham and cakes in her house around the corner. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She began immediately haggling with Mama and Papa about the price of the cakes, even though they hadn’t said a word about even buying them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The food bag still held a few rice cakes, but Tree-ear felt that he would never be able to eat again. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Viola was bent over an elaborate cake, holding her breath and applying the final decorations of nonpareils, those tiny edible metallic nuggets that crunched thrillingly between the teeth. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Miss Love brought in the hot pound cake on Granny’s best china plate, holding it high over her head, and set it down in front of Grandpa with a grand flourish. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Too tired to mix the saffron-colored powder into the hard cake of oleo, she simply smeared the white stuff on the bread and sprinkled the sugar over it. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The cake is actually a cupcake, but it's all I could afford. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"It's crazy, that's what it is," the mother said angrily: "Anyhow, this diet took over. When her sister got married, Sandi wouldn't even taste the wedding cake, taste!" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Beneath her feet, dust caked the palace floor. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I drew detailed pictures of food—steaming chicken with crispy, glazed skin, bowls of plums, apple cakes with crumbling crusts. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The dog’s face was completely covered with white cake and icing. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Next door to it was a pasticceria with pastries and cakes of all shapes and sizes in its windows. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Rimas told of the buttercream frosting she made for cakes. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

All around them are the less awful children of faerie nobles, eating their bread and honey, their cakes and roasted pigeons, their elderflower jam with biscuits and cheese and the fat globes of grapes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Yesterday was kidney pie and stale almond cake, sir.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buttercup ripped her clothes into patches and ties, and they worked at the wound, caking the blood with mud from the floor of the Fire Swamp, then bandaging and rebandaging over it. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” he said, “Yellow cake, with cream inside.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The wood floors were “practically black,” the windows were “caked with dirt,” and the walls were smeared with something she “didn’t even want to think about.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

After she had passed around the teacups, milk, sugar, lemon and cake, Dicey sat on the floor. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cake a driver delivered the next morning, with “I’m sorry my love” written on it in blue frosting, had a bitter aftertaste, but Aunty Uju kept it in the freezer for months. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He settles back on the floor next to me, plates of half-eaten cake at our feet. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Hanako could not believe their luck to find this woman in a starving country selling these beautiful cakes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her spatula moved like a striking snake and the hot cakes settled their white sides hissing on the soapstone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She went to the cupboard and took out a flat cake which she put on a hot stone to bake. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Within half an hour, I have a raging headache from all the lights, and the funnel cake I force down...well, let’s just say it doesn’t do me any digestive favors. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Probably the little cakes are a bit hard from staleness, but they would still taste good. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pineapple-jam cake was her favorite, and her family’s recipe was famous. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And now, now he can’t find the good picture of Byrd and Frank, but can find them crying at the picnic table, over a birthday cake for a ten-year-old that wasn’t at the table. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Olly stands there looking at the cake for a few minutes. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kochu Maria sawed up the rest of the cake messily, laboriously, breathing through her mouth, as though she was carving a hunk of roast lamb. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brown cake was a special wartime treat, when sugar was tightly rationed. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And for Andrecito, who still calls me Mama, even at age four, I take a photo from his first birthday party, cake smeared everywhere. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also a big cup of coffee and a sack with two slices of lemon pound cake in it. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Two rice cakes, four teaspoons of mustard = 90. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

But then that podcast came around, re-examining all that happened, poking holes in a burnt cake to make sure it’s done. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Mind your manners, Alexander! As Agatha Swanburne once said: ‘If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.’ The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

These cakes had been purchased in the village, and they did not have the same taste or texture. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

They knew, too, that while they saw toys and books and holly-boughs and plum cakes, Mary Poppins saw nothing but herself reflected there. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He sat on the ground, his feet bare, his linsey-woolsey blouse veined with dirt, his dark face caked with mud. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Big Ma knew Fern had something on her mind other than when she could lick the cake batter from the bowl. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The boy said, “Almost,” and went for his piece of ginger cake. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“We has your extra food!” squeaked an elf at Harry’s elbow, and he shoved a large ham, a dozen cakes, and some fruit into Harry’s arms. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I am sixteen, and for dinner we had a roast chicken and a cake, both cooked in my new oven. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

There were presents for everybody, and rare treats of sweet cakes and bits of candy, gay ribbons. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was torture to wait for the cake to cool, but when it did, we devoured it. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Dry blood caked the brass Star of David pendant he wore around his neck. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I saw sweetshops and carpet vendors, kabob stalls, kids with dirt- caked hands selling cigarettes, tiny restaurants—maps of Afghanistan painted on their windows—all interlaced with back­street aid agencies. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The boy stared at it: “You must have money! Otherwise how could you buy rice cakes?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The riders were perfectly pleasant, complimenting Ethel on her ginger cake. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Beans was scooping chocolate icing from the birthday cake onto his finger. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The princess and her ladies leave the table and pose in front of the cake. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Between the annoying smack and flutter, and the lump of cake that sat in my stomach, I felt I had to do something. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He especially loved the warm brown of Mrs. Beale’s thumb, as it appeared from under the creamy white icing that she allowed him to lick away when she was frosting his favorite cake. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got him a towel and a cake of soap, told him to take off his rags, and pointed the way to the showers. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean smelled weird, and so did the food they were selling on the boardwalk, like funnel cakes and cotton candy and hot dogs. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The seller’s face came alive at the sight of one of the American dollars, and as Jiichan bargained, Hanako and Akira eagerly picked out five cakes apiece, just as they had in the train station. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Why they are so obsessive about time, and why they think it is like a cake you can divide into pieces, why? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

She enjoyed it, but it ended too soon and was followed by a program about a cake factory. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

It was in the vicinity of these steps that my father fell, scattering the load on his tray - teapot, cups, saucers, sandwiches, cakes - across the area of grass at the top of the steps. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Fernandez said when she came to take me to the therapy wing after my cottage cake. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

We had roast beef, mashed potatoes, peas and carrots, carrot cake, and candy canes. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the harsh light of the morning, her cream-colored powder looked caked and dry. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“I had them make a cake...the bakery...for our anniversary.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Two against one. Should be a piece of cake," he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There was a thick layer of gummy, dried blood caked around his nose, his mouth, down to even his chin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to poison him with that cheap store cake.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Celia said if they put that many candles on the cake, it would melt the paint off the walls.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madam’s list of required delicacies was endless: gingerbread, pies of brandied peaches and preserved cherries and mincemeat, macaroons, blancmange, Jordan almonds, sugar candy, as many kinds of cake as there were fingers on both hands. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had some balloons, a grocery-store cake, ten candles, and a tub of ice cream. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Even when he was a tiny boy with a head swollen with fat champagne-colored curls, and ate the pieces of cake she held out to him, her smile was more amusement than pleasure. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anything, he feels slightly ill, from the combination of the bourbon and the two large pieces of cake he’d had because he had not had any dinner. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody had on good clothes and was exchanging cakes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mamita and Mami and Tía Isa, not understanding that drumsticks are the only kind of drumsticks that will do on a drum, suggested pencils or the handles of wooden spoons used for making cake batter. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

We eat fresh broad beans, venison with scattered pomegranate seeds, grilled brown trout with butter, a salad of bitter herbs, and, for after, raisin cakes smothered in apple syrup. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He rarely got away from them after a delivery without some tea or coffee and cake. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The cake got finished a few nights ago, thank God, but the old lady’s as nice as ever. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“My cake’s ready!” she announced, as though a buzzer had gone off in the kitchen. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

As Amelia’s disembodied words of encouragement continued to stream in, the warm sugar-buttery smell of baking cake filled the house. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

If the price of dog food and cake mix can be rationalized, why can’t some sort of rough “safety index” be devised which allows us to gauge how safe various activities, procedures, and illnesses are? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put the flint stones back into the pouch, then ate a rice cake from the bag, wrinkling his nose a little at the first bite. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“What if we baked small cakes and delivered them to the State House with a handbill advertising our new wares?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seconds later Harry realized that it was his birthday cake, which Mrs. Weasley was suspending with her wand, rather than risk carrying it over the uneven ground. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The five of them had savored it, made a game of eating it with excruciating slowness, knowing it was the last cake they would ever taste. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The other picture must have been taken at a birthday party, because there was a cake with candles at the center of the picture. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes the cake, mashes it in her hand and throws the plate against the wall, busting it into a billion pieces. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They waste away the morning in bed, watching Mel and Sue squawk over tea cakes on Henry’s laptop, listening to the rain slow to a drizzle. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Cerberus, the three-headed dog, guarded the doors, but if she gave him a cake he would be friendly and let her pass. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cream cakes appeared then, and the conversation took a lighter turn. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Belet began reluctantly but was soon piling her plate high with cookies, tarts, and slices of cake. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

So on Monday morning, I hopped off the bus and waited by the gate with a slice of Ma’s pineapple upside-down cake snuck in my bag. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Our church was filled with unmarried women who had placed home-baked casseroles, bread puddings, and cakes in Big Ma’s arms so Pa would know they were good cooks and available for marriage. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

There was no other woman in the village able to do what his had done, to make cakes such as only the rich ate at the feast. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Chocolate cake is like our tradition, so...” he starts. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

We had green beans, turnips, macaroni and cheese, caramel cake—all kinds of funeral foods. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier’s eyes flit to the remaining piece of cake and then away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Intent on preparing our backpacks, on baking breads and cakes, we no longer thought about anything. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of them is a small table holding a big birthday cake. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Fruit, but nothing with sugar. Candy, cake, stuff like that. I don’t even like to smell it. Makes me want to throw up.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about it briefly as I open the box and look at half a mud cake. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I took his razor from the shower floor, bits of his black hair still caked between the blades. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“It looks like the Romans have arrived to cut you off. I’d get back to your ship in a hurry if I were you. Would you care for some tea cakes to go?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There were no smiles, and no mention of sweet cakes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The sort of look people always got when they tried one of her perfect cakes. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I just shoved his hand, cake and all, into his face. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was she going to have new kids and give them cake with pink and purple flowers when they got home from school? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Ivan’s nose and chin were caked with blood, as was the front of his shirt. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Food might be a tad skimpy in the portions, and I believe she had a prejudice against butter, she used so little of it in her cakes. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Blow out the candles, sweetie, make a wish, before we eat wax cake.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was not the carrot soup and vegetable cakes and Greek pasta I had brought that morning from Bread and Circus. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Here. Here’s you some more cake.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Chipo squeezed the honey out of the combs and boiled it with millet meal to make delicious cakes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They look at me like I'm a slice of spiced cake waiting to be eaten. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Mom cried, putting the cake on the counter and hurrying over to them. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Almost every day when I came home from school I’d find one or two cakes on the hall table, waiting to be put away. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A course. Can’t have no proper sandwich on no raw bread. And this afternoon I’ll make one a Minny’s famous caramel cakes. And next week we gone do you a fried catfish...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“And I framed the photo Dylan took of us with your birthday cake. I have one in my room too.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Being eighty-nine years old, she’d had plenty of practice and was by far the cake champion of Cold Sassy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But one bite of chocolate cake made him stop thinking about death. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

And unlike the other guests, Angelo always wound up in the kitchen cooking the dinner or passing platters of his famous fennel cakes. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Lazlo had only marginally more experience with cake than Sarai did, so this was one of the things they made up between them “however they liked.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Father also treated us to spice cake, the men to beer and the ladies to yogurt. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She would notice that the sunshine cake was too haggled to put before him and decide on a rennet dessert. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no television or twirling tower of cakes with cream pompadours. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He pressed the moist crumbs to the roof of his mouth and closed his eyes, wishing that he might someday be the man who was the perfect fit for such a cake. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Of course, his hopes hadn’t been high; they’d never given him a real present, let alone a cake — but to ignore it completely . Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I blew out the fires, grabbed the cake, and ran from the house. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The women were boiling eggs, roasting meat, preparing cakes, sewing backpacks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

What the researchers found was that students were more likely to choose the chocolate cake if they were asked to memorize the sevendigit number. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

None of the cake was left, but there were still a couple of cans of Coke, which Kevin told them to keep. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The men began to fear that the sails would freeze up and cake with ice, becoming heavier and heavier until the boat toppled upside down. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“A very big birthday cake,” my sister added. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He’s pirouetting away from one when he catches sight of a lone figure hovering near the cake and the champagne fountain. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But see, Mr. Reuben could know about Kenya’s fight and would offer her pound cake regardless. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

There's fruits and crackers and cheeses and cakes and noodles and weird-looking salads and chicken and pie and potatoes and macaroni. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After it’s cooled, I apply an unreasonably thin layer of frosting, just enough to cover the cake. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Why we having two cakes?” the boy asked. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t take the cake from the angel’s hand. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t care,” she said, taking another bite of cake. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She produced an oblong cake of soap in a black case, a hydrating mask, a vial of cell renewal drops, and two tubes of face cream. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Servants set down dishes—roasted goose shining with currant glaze, oysters and stewed ramps, acorn cakes and whole fish stuffed with rose hips. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Once the cake and gifts were laid out, the twins ran off to wait for Wash to finish working for Mr. Crane. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looks at the cake with the big “10” on it and then back at Natalie through the doorway. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled, cutting into his cheese cake with a fork and shoving far too large a piece into his mouth. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We completely missed the birthday cake, which Mom was really mad about. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She filled her calabash and ate more of the honey-and-millet cakes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is precisely to the point, Sticky,” said Mr. Benedict, with a nod to Rhonda Kazembe, who went to a cabinet and produced an enormous birthday cake that had been hidden inside. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh”—he slipped another bite of cake onto his tongue— “everywhere,” he said, chewing. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Charlie got carried away eating the cherries while the cake was in the oven, but luckily we still had enough to cover the top edge. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

His darling “Lotje” has sent him eggs, butter, cookies, lemonade, bread, cognac, spice cake, flowers, oranges, chocolate, books and writing paper. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

That night, a dozen or so of these young ladies in party frocks descended on my room with cake and punch and gifts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they’d left, August, Rosaleen, and I sat down and ate honey cake while it was still hot, talking over what had just happened. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cast a sly look to the girl standing next to me, dressed in a skirt suit, her young face caked with enough makeup to age her well beyond her years. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She talked about stray cats she had rescued or how she had made a mistake and put salt into a cake batter instead of sugar. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled two birthday candles out of his pocket and stood them up on the cake, side-by-side. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Muff stopped by to bring the girl’s family a cake and found her up to her elbows in laundry—in the bathtub of all places. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

At a proprietary yank from one of the little cousins, Yolanda lets herself be led to the cake table, festive with a lacy white tablecloth and starched party napkins. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I will translate these Latin letters for you, if you will first give me your cake,” I would offer, and he would gladly consent. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Then she set down their cake and together they decorated its edge with yellow daisies. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My dad went out foraging and returned with a handful of snacks he bought from kids selling them by the side of the road—peanuts and mandazi, little round cakes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They took off the paper wrappings, and each had a little, hard, brown cake, with beautifully crinkled edges. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

With superb balance, he walked step by step along the string until he reached the cake. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Uncle Leang reaches into his bag and pulls out some sweet rice cakes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said Reznak, “and afterward there is a special cake. A women’s cake, baked only for betrothals. Men are not allowed to taste it. I am told it is delicious. Magical.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Here are Mr. and Mrs. Roodveldt, I presume, cradling a baby in a white dress, behind a table with a cake on it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He stared at the cake as an idea slowly took shape in his mind. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

‘Think about something good. Birthday cake in the park in Rome -’ ‘That was nice.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Everyone thanked Margalo for saving Stuart’s life; and at suppertime Mrs. Little presented her with a tiny cake, which had seeds sprinkled on top. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

That evening Mom fried a rockfish and served one of her applesauce cakes for dessert. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of its one street there was a little shop with some cakes of bread in the window. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

As everyone belted out “Happy Birthday,” Palmer stared at the man marching in with the cake and tried to imagine him pulling the trigger again and again as gray-feathered Nippers fell from the sky. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

A fine currant cake is the favourite food of white mice. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Power it couldn't get with its solar panels hopelessly caked with dust. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Scheisskopf turned white as a sheet when Major Major reported to him in California with bare feet and mud- caked toes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Anybody saw you make a birthday cake for a dog that he don’t even know when’s his birthday would think you were nuts.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the day, our faces and bodies were caked with white dust. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had brought fresh bread, too, and a spice cake from the grocery. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The Tynmore girls had brought up a cake which they had baked themselves and it stood on a plate and was already sliced. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaving the cake and all the ingredients on the table, he let himself out the steel door without saying good-bye. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

We eat the cake and move into a sitting room to watch the replay of the opening ceremonies that's being broadcast. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Seven sighed and took another bite of cake. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was a splendid, uproarious, spontaneous celebration, with hugs and handshakes and kisses all around, and eventually Milligan produced the remains of last night’s birthday cake and Rhonda whipped up a frothy fruit punch. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There is a whole aisle for snack cakes, and I could offer all of them. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“The one that his old lady used to make hot cakes for the kids?” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maxine pays for the cake and scones, and we leave the bakery. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When it was finished, he would slice it down like a cake, and all the layers would be revealed. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I was wondering if you'd like to go to the fair with me. I drove past it this morning. All the games are rigged and the rides are pretty lame, but they have funnel cake.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’m face to face with a bed like a birthday cake topped with a fluffy icing-pink blanket with a white llama design, and two poufy pillows, all facing a glorious TV. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The packages containing the cake mix were mildewed. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The food was mostly in the form of very thin cakes, made of a meal that was baked a light brown on the outside, and inside was the colour of cream. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Madame Manec sneaks Marie-Laure chocolate bars, slices of cake; this morning they squeeze lemons into glasses full of water and sugar, and she lets Marie-Laure drink as much as she likes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We eat dessert—the best cake I’ve ever had—and then Mrs. Winters pushes her chair back from the table. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The quiet that suffused the doctor’s house then, broken only by the murmur of the women eating sunshine cake, was only that: quiet. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shelled the acorns, ground them fine, roasted them with a bit of cornmeal, and that night the family had sweet acorn cakes. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I was tricked. Yes, I was. I saw the pretty color and believed it was sweet. I know there is no sugar in Japan for cake. But I saw the pretty color.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

All the kids in the Thursday resource room celebrated their birthdays with a sheet cake, and he had made a specific note when it was Valencia’s turn. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She said, “It’s a kind of cake. It has four pink and yellow squares in the middle and it has marzipan icing round the edge.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he says, “I would only go if there was cake.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The top was caked with burned grease, and the oven door hung open. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“There’s a capacity for appetite,” Samuel said, “that a whole heaven and earth of cake can’t satisfy.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I moved my fork into the cake itself. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he said slowly, “I don’t know about cake, but. . .” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The bathroom is festooned with stockings and underpants; hair rollers perch on the kitchen counter like bristly caterpillars, dishes cake in the sink. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After the service there was a kiddush, consisting of schnapps and some cakes and cookies. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Throughout the house there was the sweet spiced odor of newly baked cake and steaming coffee. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hear the sound of cake crumbs falling out of peoples mouths and hitting the floor,” said his brother Toulese. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Evidently, she had stuffed the tiny purse full of cakes when no one was looking. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Calpurnia? Did you hear me? Go and fetch him. Mrs. Purtle, do try some of this excellent cake. It’s Viola’s special recipe.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I headed for the cupboard and grabbed a bag of mini rice cakes, an inspired-by-sawdust snack food that my mom tries to pass off as a worthy substitute for chips. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He had a nasty concussion, but recovered enough to have birthday cake the next day with his friend. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She offered to go out, to buy something from the deli, but Rohin said he wasn’t very hungry, and accepted one of the rice cakes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had caked blood all over his mouth and down the front of his T-shirt like a red bib. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But somewhere among the ruins there must have been one luck-frosted cake left. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Terrible ones who boil everything until it’s as gray and soggy as English weather, and the ones who bake perfectly iced cakes and adorable meat-filled pastries for BBC cooking shows. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He bent down from his corner seat and took a cake from the bricks, and juggled it in his hands. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

They performed a crazy kind of dance with their claws to scratch apart the caked manure and expose the meaty grubs within. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Reached over, plucked Rock off the bench where he’d been cowering and reeking of urinal cakes and dragged him behind us like a toddler dragging a security blanket. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cut slices of sponge cake and served them with ice cream. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His movements, as he peered through the brightly lighted shelves of pastry, were those of a lively small animal, a fyce, interested in detecting only the target cut of cake. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She helps her get a piece of cake, then lines her up for her bag of party favors. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She was already stirring up batter for a pineapple upside-down cake, Liyana’s favorite. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Someone calls our names over the wall, says it’s time for tea and cake. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had the eggs, the rest of the ham, the corn cakes. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the study, undergraduate students were given the task of choosing what snack they wanted to eat, whether a delicious yet calorie-rich chocolate cake with cherry topping or a serving of healthy fruit salad. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Two days later, it had formed into a hard cake. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Our next-door neighbors’ names, the way the house smelled, what school was like, the holidays, the taste of icing on birthday cakes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In some of the cakes she had put strips of little red haws and spots of dried green plums, making flowers and patterns. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Then they have all kinds of cakes and pies and puddings. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

His eyes lingered for a moment on the giant Snitch cake. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Dessert consists mainly of a gargantuan tiered cake shaped to resemble circus tents and frosted in stripes, the filling within a bright shock of raspberry cream. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Me, I always like some good cake after I finish eating,” Mrs. Reilly told the bartender, who turned his back on her. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Too Bad’s mother came home, she gave us each a big slice of cake. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pigs and venison steaks, ginger pies and cornbread cakes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“This job has been a piece of cake, don’t you think?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mom had made a treasure map, and after cake at home, Daisy and Mom and I got into the canoe and paddled down to Pirates Island. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

My father would take his square of Arabic hareesa, a delicious cream-of-wheat cake with an almond balanced in the center, outside on a plate. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He told me then about birthday cakes and candles, and I laughed also. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The cake wasn’t out of the oven good before I got a glimpse of how Miss Love could lead him by the halter. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She also promised to bake a fancy layer cake for the twins’ birthday in July. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Where you bought these nice wine cakes, lady?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he was paying, the dog got back into the case and took a huge bite out of the white cake. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

But that does not mean people were baking sweet cakes and topping them with sugary icing. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

As Mother handed the plate to Colette, it tilted and the cakes slid to the floor. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are, both of us, cake people, not frosting people. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

If anything could make a person less of a grump, she thought, it was a cake baked specifically for him. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Perilee is baking one of her cakes, but I thought it safer if I brought sandwiches. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Robin discovered, too, that Alan liked sweets, so he kept a good supply of honey cakes in his pocket for largess. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The fragment of coral, a tiny crinkle of pink like a sugar rosebud from a cake, rolled across the mat. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“The ride in, that was easy, a piece of cake. But now the road was gone, and every landmark.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hermione refused, with a pained look at the way the elves kept bowing and curtsying, but Harry and Ron loaded their pockets with cream cakes and pies. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Of all the invasions of her privacy, this one took the cake. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Moushumi is there, lined up behind a blazing cake in his parents’ dining room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the cakes were laid out upon the table in strips, ready for heating, Wing Lung felt his heart fit to burst with pride. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Some of them had runny noses, or there was a kind of blood-spattered green crust caked around the nostrils. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab a dry rag and take that black cake out the door, set it down on the concrete step. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I wonder why they call it coffee cake. Not a drop of coffee in it.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She reached into her pockets, emptying out the handkerchiefs and placing the cakes next to them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I let her play with her buttons and feed her four pieces of lemon cake while she sits by the door. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thousand years ago, she had known a girl who loved lemon cakes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I want to look in her eyes and see what she know, but Miss Leefolt stay in the kitchen most a the day trying to make a cake. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Usually I can tell as soon as I meet someone. Like, Amy’s mom there is a pineapple upside-down cake, and her dad is a sour cream coffee cake with a crumbly blueberry center.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The job was a piece of cake, Dr. Fanning explained, mostly keeping rich widows in Valium, but heck, the pay was good. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She takes the cake from me and puts it in the kitchen. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

On each plate was a golden moon cake filled with lotus seeds and honey. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

And he would refuse to eat everything offered to him, always turning his nose away as though someone were offering him a stinky pickle and not a sweet cake. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nurses, trying to cheer them up, give them a cake studded with the number of candles equal to the number of days they’ve been living in the Slammer. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sofía briefly considered a belly dancer or a girl who'd pop out of a cake. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There was a great fire burning in the kitchen fireplace and the smell of Johnny cake and hot gravy. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soles of his boots were caked with dirt and there was trail dust on the hem of his long jacket. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Meggie was quick to take the plate before it dropped, and put the piece of cake on it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen all kinds of dishonesty in my day—but this little display takes the cake. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Sunday chow we had roast beef, mashed potatoes, peas, carrots, carrot cake, and milk. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all very well to eat pretend cake and chicken, but her real stomach felt like the two sides were stuck together. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children plead to be allowed to light the remaining cities, but no, Tía Carmen tells them, they may blow out the candles and, of course, eat the cake. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Max, can you please take our guest to the patio? I’ll put out some cake.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’d done some more experimenting with cake flavors since then, but this recipe felt right for today, since it reminded me of the summer I first started writing to Marcus. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He received the small cake from the children with good cheer, but made it clear he was anxious to get back to his papers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She saw kind faces, people who loved her, a thickly frosted cake, a little sister and cousin by her side, a new year ahead. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My one responsibility for the day was to chaperone Sul Ross and make sure he didn’t stuff himself on birthday cake to the point of getting sick. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In the real world, people don't build wedding cakes. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had with the day’s earnings bought as usual one rice cake which I now broke to hand around. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The screeching alarm, the panicked bakers, the sopping cakes. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Hey, want to go get a candy apple and a funnel cake and help me celebrate? Colton and his dad are around here somewhere. Mom’s searching for a free table.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Beneath his painted vest, a plaster of fig leaves and caked blue mud covered the wound on his breast. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“It is. But it’s like a layer cake. Brown earth or rock on the bottom, green trees, then blue sky. Did you know cacti bloom flowers? Every color except blue. We’ve even got roadrunners.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Both Kalinda and I dive through the hole, scratching ourselves up on the rocks and getting my shirt and skirt caked with dirt. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I laughed, "So what? I'm neither a criminal nor a politician, brother. So you picked the wrong man. But thanks again for the coffee and cheese cake—brother." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This here’s the best coconut cake you ever made.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

What if they ran out of rice and regretted giving away these cakes that tasted like nothing? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I eat shrimp and sweet potato cakes and write words on blank lined paper: “fade,” “extinguish,” “evaporate,” “niqabize.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The refrigerated cakes come in flimsy cardboard boxes steaming with dry ice. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My birthday party, has red and blue balloons and a chocolate-brown cake. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you think about strawberry cheesecake and carrot cake?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Even Doña Rosa, when she was alive, used to drag her walker across the street for cake. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She used to love ice-cream cakes, so I loved them, too. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

At my request, Mom bought the ingredients for a Black Forest cake. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

His hand came for another piece of cake. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I did the ironing for her one week to say thank you for the cake, and she baked me a strawberry rhubarb pie to thank me for the ironing. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had roast beef, mashed potatoes, carrots, carrot cake, and milk for supper. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how he loved letting me lick the batter off the spoon before baking a cake, but not nearly as much as he loved seeing me chomp down on the finished product. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t eaten all day, when can I have my cake?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He licked the cake crumbs from his fingers, wiped his hand on a Westing Paper Tea Napkin, and took his opponent's queen from the board. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma gave her five little cakes, one for each year that Laura had lived with her and Pa. And Mary gave her a new dress for Charlotte. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gars in the street caked with ash, everything covered with ash and dust. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In any case, the cake smelled very, very good. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The sight of my fingernails, caked with blood, stops me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear the pat of the corn- cakes in the house and the rich smell of them on the cooking plate. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

For ten seconds Chapter Eleven studied my documents, detecting no forgery, as the clouds burst overhead, and I made him get me one more piece of cake. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Finally he slammed down three bucket-sized mugs of mahogany-brown tea in front of them and a plate of his rock cakes. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

After Mother berates me about finding a husband every other day, I have to sleep in a wedding cake. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I sat at the kitchen table and watched Bertha cut a thick slice of coffee cake and put it on a paper towel in front of me. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

But a warm spring wind was blowing across Boston Common, and at the hotel Mr. Popper had to have the ice brought up to his rooms in thousand-pound cakes. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Now put it back in the bucket. Grammy will make some great crab cakes out of it. With extra tartar sauce. You’ll love them.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Except tea and cakes. And your own excellent perfume, of course.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure they’ll only put in a brief appearance. I can pretty much tell you there is only one thing on Saleem’s mind right now, and it’s not cutting that cake.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Bakers began frosting their cakes with plain sugar—it was cheaper than luck and just as sparkly. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Multiple choice! Wonderful! Piece of cake for you.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The large woman standing before her was, surprisingly, not a cake at all, but rather a blackberry pie. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It seems unfair not to give credit where credit is due simply because one lacks a certain number of candles on one’s birthday cake. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was a three-tiered pink-and-white cake, draped in fondant and topped with a sugar figurine of a baby holding the number 1 in its chubby hands. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She came in carrying this tray with coffee and cakes and stuff on it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Miss Maggie gave us lobster cakes, biscuits, and cool water with sprigs of mint. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

When dried, the white or pink pulp makes flour for thin, tortilla-like cakes; when boiled and smoked, it becomes hors d’oeuvres; when cooked and fermented, it makes beer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On top of the chocolate cake, vanilla frosting spells Do Not Throw Away Your Wish. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The cook placed the cake carefully on the table. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

There are lots of birthday pictures, and I smile at all the lopsided cakes. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

And last but not least, she makes my favorite chocolate cake, decorated with M&M’s. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh, man! You kidding? Mrs. Beale makes the best cakes in the world.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom said we couldn’t light the oven until Julia’s mother came out to supervise us, so we put our clumped-together cake batter in the fridge and went to Julia’s room to watch television. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then all of us were dancing except for Big Ma, who yelled, “Cut this cake before the candles melt all over it!” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She smells like flowers dipped in cake batter. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Inside was a small blanket, a sausage, and a coffee cake. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

How every birthday, we cooked, ate cake, washed dishes, and stayed close like a real family. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, he didn't see the wagon handle, so he tripped on it, slid on the wet concrete, fell in the puddle of melted ice and, unfortunately, toppled the wedding cake. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Madam wants lemon cakes with her tea. She is terrible fond of cakes, is Madam. Lady Clarissa Seymour is coming to hear all the news from Boston.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’d be a piece of cake. You don’t have the killer instinct.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate clumsily; bits of cake fell away before they got to his mouth. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We spend the rest of the morning baking my traditional birthday cake of vanilla sponge with vanilla cream frosting. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The waiter wheeled out a tray with the cake on it, and the woman with the gloves lit it with a taper. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sweet rice cakes with gooey walnut paste next to stalls of fish cake and raw seafood. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She thought the yellow soap was too biting, so she brought along a cake of Sweetheart Soap and a big old bath towel to dry him with. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stella closed her eyes, thinking of the rich chocolate icing her mother whipped up and slathered on a warm layer cake. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Would you like to join us for some cake?” she asked, taking the black-haired girl’s hand in her own. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She didn’t understand how such a lonely, depressed spirit could produce a horn of plenty that shot out pineapples and birthday cakes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Quietly, another soldier entered with a small torch, unbound her hands, and offered her a cake. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He picked up a platter with thick slices of cake on it. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her mask, now dry, had assumed an ashen quality, and water from her hair dripped onto the caked contours of her face. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Daddy comes in, dusting caked dirt off his hands. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

His face appeared thoughtful as he shoveled another bite of cake into his mouth. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

After we finished dinner I took out the chocolate mousse cake with mocha icing that I’d bought from Patisserie Lind, a fancy sweetshop near the station, Lelia’s and Mitt’s favorite old place. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m on the night watch now. The name is Fisher. Bring me round some cake, and I’ll keep an eye on your brother.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ob and I left the Underwood house full of warm cake and coffee. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Who baked cakes, wore a bonnet, and sang him songs at night. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A tiny dog with a red ribbon between its ears rushed in and gobbled the fallen cakes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, on the bottom shelf, sat his birthday cake. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

In his hooded poncho, everything caked with mud, the boy’s face was impossible to make out. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fancy cakes with flowers and pretty things painted in frosting. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

While Mrs. Reilly arranged her cake boxes on the bar, Ignatius spread his expansive nostrils and said, “My God, Mother, it smells awful. My stomach is beginning to chum.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He's now got forty ruined cakes on his hands.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“I already made friends with the 7-Eleven guy. He’s open all night. I wanted a Twinkie cake, but all I had was a hundred dollar bill, and he didn’t have that much change.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He was always looking forward to Thursdays and the seed cakes and the half-hour sitting out under the fruit trees with Cilia. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hilly stuffs the rest of the cake in her mouth, nodding and mm-mming. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The long counter is stacked with plates of juicy hamburgers, old-fashioned milk shakes, and seven-layer cakes under glass domes. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The cake is one of Mrs. Rooks’s red velvets. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson had called all their relatives to share the good news; Mr. Richardson arrived home with a cake. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Come so we can cut this beautiful cake!" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then I grab the plate with the great pile of cakes and squeeze myself behind the house door. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held a caramel cake on a platter. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He could have invited friends to his house....He might even have had brothers and sisters....It would have been his mother who had made his seventeenth birthday cake. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And now the cake was behaving very curiously for while the bottom was burning and sending out a black smoke the top was rising and falling glueyly with a series of little explosions. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the kitchen finishing a piece of Miss Effie Belle’s caramel cake when Grandpa found me again. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“You think? Then I will take green. I have not eat a green cake before.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Near eleven o’clock she remembered a piece of pound cake she had put away. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

A pretty young woman in a white summer dress held a knife to cut the cake. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s perfect,” Laura says, stabbing her plastic fork into the last chunk of cake. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I told you—I’m through handing out medals. There are no more prizes, Kyle. No more ice cream, cake, or balloons.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Everybody sets their cake slices aside to applaud as the screen fades to black, even though the film technically isn’t over. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I ask Mr. Daniels if I can renew my book at the library, and he smiles like I gave him a cake. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She quickly cut the tiny cake into five bite-size pieces, and we each ate them. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I passed the piece of cake over the glass case. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

A Circle Line tour boat is rounding the tip of Manhattan, optimistic as a wedding cake. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora had been to town plenty, even climbed the steps of the white bakery to buy a cake. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She chose three cakes and handed the plate to Mother, who took two. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What about the Beiderman?” asked Oliver, who was walking by with a piece of chocolate cake as big as the plate it was on. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She baked a Barbie cake with a skirt of pink and blue icing and wrote Happy Birthday Ashley in loopy script. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

To be more specific: She was lost in a dream of long ago, a dream filled with laughter and Black Forest cake and sun-dappled meadows that rang with the singing of adorable birds— “Miss? Miss?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Finally Big Ma appeared, her hands caked with flour, her face puzzled. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The melted window glass hung frozen down the walls like icing on a cake. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Mom took one look at them and nearly dropped the coconut cake she was carrying. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know her well enough to know whether she was telling the truth about getting orange squash and Battenberg cake. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When all our plates were clean and our stomachs were filled, Grandma told us to turn out the lights, and she brought the beautifully decorated ginger cake to the table with candles blazing. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I scrubbed every blacked-up piece of plastic, wearing down that Ivory bar from a nearly full cake to nearly half flat I scrubbed and scrubbed until my knuckles ached. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large, lopsided blue cake is on the kitchen table, candles already burned halfway down during the long, blindfolded walk. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Cady brought her nose so close to the cake that she nearly nudged it. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The taste of the cake is still in his mouth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My birthday cake is in the shape of a heart this year. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Every year Mom, Dad, Thomas, and I would celebrate Fig’s birthday with a specially made cake from Heavenly Treats Bakery, while watching the video Dad had recorded of Fig’s homecoming six years ago. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was a huge sheet cake shaped like an open book. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Pita’s eyes sparkled with delight; she was all but devouring the baby cakes on the platter. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Drizzle cake with glaze and let solidify before serving. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The camera people made Erlan and his brothers blow out the candles on their birthday cake three times, because they said they couldn’t get the angle right. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

But no matter what shape they took, their mouths were greasy and caked with the remnants of old meals. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I got to give the pinch of cake to Cressie, who ate it with her eyes closed. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stories of Herr Thiessen continue through dessert, interrupted only by a discussion about why the cake is called a pie when it is clearly cake. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Men were holding them in front of the same bakery where I had stolen the cake that day. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

While Jasper, his spaniel ears a-droop, feigns indifference to the arrival of the cakes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

When we got back to the pink house in the woods, it smelled sweet again, because Betty Allen was baking another one of her seventeen cakes. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Zander puts his hands together and looks at the cafeteria ceiling where the god of birthday cakes must be. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Dried blood caked his teeth and the corners of his lips. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

With a sigh, he brushed a few cake crumbs off Fenoglio’s kitchen table. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Once a year, in late November, she makes maleeda, a bowl of finely crumbled cake that looks something like graham cracker crumbs. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I pull the filthy plaster off the end of my finger and look at the pale, wrinkled flesh beneath, dried blood caked at the edge of my fingernail. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole wolfed down the moist piece of cake, eyeing Garvey the whole time. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Helmuth is about to take a bite of wedding cake when Hugo says to him, "Wait and see, my boy. The war will be over, as soon as this matter is settled with Poland." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She leaned toward him, close enough to see some white powder from the rice cakes stuck to the comers of his mouth, and picked up the almanac. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

There were only a few hours before the bakeoff, and she had a cake to make. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I had planned a private good-bye tea party in her room with almond cookies and rice cakes. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They poured wine and ale and feasted on cured meats and aged cheeses and crumbly cakes, heavy with butter and cream. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When she said that, it was as if she had just blown out all the candles on my cake. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She finished off the last cake, licking her fingers with relish, then set the tray outside the door and rang for a maid. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As Hanako waited, she thought of the two children dashing away with the cakes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Luke, Mary Miller, and our therapists joined us for cake in the conference room. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Harry watched her out of sight, then crawled under his bed, wrenched up the loose floorboard, and pulled out a large chunk of birthday cake. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Baking cakes for Mary on her feast day.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cake is chocolate, my favorite, but I move the cake bits around on my plate, squeezing them flat with my fork. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s in the candy, the cake mixes, the mayonnaise, mustard, hot dogs and bologna, the salad dressings and even in some vitamins. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Here. Look at the fire whiles I cuts this cake.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There have been another couple of dementor attacks,” he announced, as Mrs. Weasley passed him a large slice of birthday cake. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“While Chuck serves up the cake, I’m gonna open Edie’s present. Be sure to give the first slice to my niece. And give her plenty of ice cream, too. Nice and easy on the teeth.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He found me in the kitchen, watching the progress of certain cakes for tea, then baking. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Why wait? Let’s eat our cake and watch the film, too.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And he always makes me a giant cake for my birthday.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her hair was matted, her elbows caked with dirt, and a small piece of one front tooth was missing. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The boy’s gloves were caked with his cousin’s blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Keeping one hand on the steering wheel, Sapo dug into the paper bag and pulled out one of his little cakes. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I plug some headphones into the family laptop, select the angel food cake episode of The Great British Baking Show, and turn up the sound so I can’t hear them arguing. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by crowds, the long tables were all laid out: jams and preserves, vegetables in novelty shapes, cakes and breads. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she looks at me and says, “Now you pick something. A cake. Which one should we get?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I hadn't had a freshwater bath in three weeks and was glistening with caked salt like a stick of rock crystal candy. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Mo remained silent, pushing cake crumbs off the rough tabletop, drawing invisible patterns on the wood with his forefinger. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

My mother was putting out a cigarette and starting to make pound cake for lunch. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Even if he did find some cake, what good would it be without Sally there to enjoy it with him? A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“It was all the cake, wasn’t it? Goddess bait.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Put another way, says Dr. Atchley, the frontal lobe is crucial in helping people inhibit impulses, like choosing the chocolate cake, which is a very basic form of decision making. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I ask myself what kind of person I am, worrying about missing out on a lousy piece of cake. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“And maybe you’d better give some of that cake to Florida, too.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

There's the tiny cake I bought too, with one skinny candle sticking out of it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’m carrying the cake as we reenter the room and everyone starts singing “Happy Birthday.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Later, when the other Japanese families arrived, we ate all night long: salted rice balls, fish cakes, rice crackers, rice candies, and barbecued chicken. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

For indeed, the notice outside advertises not only 'teas, snacks and cakes', but also 'clean, quiet, comfortable rooms'. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was caked up on one side with blood or mud like he got chunked there by a rock and never took the time to wash it out. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it’s that nobody cares if two lovers get together—that’s like a cake only they get to eat. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

On the second, she constructed the cake, using cardboard bases and straws for supports, and made the basic icing to cover the layers. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I loved all the sounds and smells of the festival—corn dogs and kettle corn and chili and funnel cakes. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Come on, Janey, serve that cake before I go light this up. Cake and pipe smoke don’t go together.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But she liked making cakes, though this may only be something I prefer to think. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kat lifts the cake from under the table. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Petra wanted to giggle, but instead choked on her cake and had to wash it down with a scalding gulp of Earl Grey. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I am seven years old and leading him to a cake that is filled with my love for him. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Make me some bandages or we die,” and, with that, he rolled onto the ground, tore off his burning clothes and set to work caking mud onto the deep wound in his shoulder. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She served us coffee and cakes while Malcolm spoke in the courteous, gentle manner that was his in private. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rock cakes were shapeless lumps with raisins that almost broke their teeth, but Harry and Ron pretended to be enjoying them as they told Hagrid all about their first lessons. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

On Sunday afternoon, my whole family gathers at the table for tea, Jaffa cakes that my mom found at the supermarket, and a game of dominoes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She ate the ice cream steadily, then she fell to on the cake again, looking about at the showcases. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my mom got up to answer it, Quisqueya was standing at the door with a coffee cake in her hands. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

My father removes his hat and holds it in his thick, farmer’s hands, the palms caked with grime, soil caught beneath the fingernails. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She baked vinegar pies and dried-apple pies, and filled a big jar with cookies, and she let Laura and Mary lick the cake spoon. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There's going to be lemon cakes and tea," Sansa went on, all adult and reasonable. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We ate blue cake and ice cream until we couldn’t eat anymore. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Nice to meet you,” I say to the chipmunk man as I watch David slide his hand toward the platter of leftover cake. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have not asked about your brother,” he said, as they were waiting for the* cream cakes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I had to come by for another piece of that coconut cake,” he said. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I dip my crab cakes in tartar sauce, and imagine Ashley yelling at me for doing so. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She gives him a full report of the day: how she hit the pinata, ate rice and cake, drank soda, how people took pictures. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

No one had ever reacted to one of her cakes quite like this before. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The house began to look like a giant birthday cake covered with frosting. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had scored a superb 99 on the fill-in-the blank worksheet on cakes and frostings, not to mention a 96 on his poultry worksheet. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Served on delicate bone china, the slices of cake towered precariously high. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

While sipping tea and nibbling on cakes, the women complained about the injustices of their daily lives. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

We walked to our house for cake and ice cream after the reception. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Debris swirled in the dark waters—a deflated birthday balloon, a child’s pacifier, a little plastic bride and groom from the top. of a cake—all the remnants of human lives cut short. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Henry Dobbins, who was a big man, carried extra rations; he was especially fond of canned peaches in heavy syrup over pound cake. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, most days, if you peeked inside the window, you would see only one orphan, all by herself but hardly lonely, standing on her tiptoes at the kitchen counter, baking a cake. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The dung cakes I made fell apart, so the fire went out. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The cake had taken time and thought, and sugar we didn’t have leave to waste. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Palmer tried not to hear, but even as he bobbed on a merry-go-rounding horse, as he breathed deeply the sweet crispy tangle of a funnel cake, there it was: pop ping. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“With my mom the way she is lately, I’m worried Thanksgiving’s going to stink. My grandmother usually cooks for us. I dream all year about her apple cake.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

We sit there, devouring cake, occasionally locking eyes until I look down at the disappearing slice between us. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There was ice cream and cake and milk and coffee on the table. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Girl, I can never say no to cake,” Patricia was saying with a laugh. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

When Mary stood to cut the cake, Tony was struck by the absurdity of the scene. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Besides, Emma had eaten the cake, too, and she hadn’t become an instant genius. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Travis’s mom dumped the batter from the mixing bowl into a cake pan, bent down, and got another cake pan from under the stove. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Sitting smug in the porch swing, she cut herself another piece of chocolate birthday cake. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As the researchers put it, “Choice of chocolate cake was higher when processing resources were constrained.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“For it to be real cake, of course,” said Ruby. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The moving picture on the front showed a curly-haired witch who was smiling toothily and pointing at a large sponge cake with her wand. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I cut a big forkful of cake and pushed it into my mouth with a lot of resolve behind it. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Who wants to try some apple cake? A free sample!” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Palmer’s mother lit the candles, nine of them on the chocolate cake with chocolate icing. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Yesterday we had mashed potatoes, grapes, chicken glass of milk each ice cream each a big sauce dish full awful good too lemon pie cake don’t you think that is pretty good.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Blanca spent the entire evening sitting in a chair staring at the cake with a dazed expression, tears running down her face. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He realized that he was riding on an endless and silent train and that his head was caked with dry blood and that all his bones ached. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The day of his sixth birthday, Mother baked a cake, a special one with raspberry jam dripping down the sides. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

A huge chocolate cake with twelve candles sat on the coffee table, waiting for later. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Do you feel special? The cake is going to be delicious.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

For birthdays his mother orders a cake on which his name is piped across the white frosted surface in a bright blue sugary script. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He nodded in the direction of the kitchen, where Miss Love was washing up pans while waiting for her pound cake to get done. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a dessert station with an assortment of pies, cakes, and ice cream. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I had expected streamers and cake and confetti. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And then—only then—did he notice the small hole and circle of caked blood around it in his Levi’s. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma hunkered in the grass with a butcher knife to carve it into cakes. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Victor excuses himself after finishing his coffee, refusing to weigh in on the cake issue. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He shot off into the forest, leaving the crumbled cake on the ground. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The cake could have been rose and honey. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The friends broke open the wine and cut the cake as they settled into a comfortable evening together, playing games and talking. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled, her teeth black with frosting and cake. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Dame un flan and three of those little cakes!” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I threw every last jar on the table, until honey was spattered everywhere, flung like cake batter from electric beaters. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was finishing up his last bite of cake when Miss Mallory leaned over and whispered in his ear. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She was a heavy woman whose powder, a shade too pale for her, caked in the creases of her throat. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Anyway I give the cake a last examination. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

A minute later he came back, shivering, caked in sand, a red stain outlining his chest. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Dried spittle caked the corners of his mouth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Bruce Bogtrotter had eaten his way through half of the entire enormous cake, he paused for just a couple of seconds and took several deep breaths. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once more I took off my handkerchief—once more I thought of the cakes of bread in the little shop. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

No, thank you, no cake just now Thank you, yes, I am having a lovely time, Mrs. Cobb. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

‘Snake people know how to make Bundt cake. Kind of orangey, with a hint of honey. Needs a glass of milk.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When we were ready we carried the cake and mugs of coffee to my father’s study. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three children, arrayed in size, stood on their stoop in the spring air, eating cakes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Before he even bothers to try his slice of cake, Uncle Phil sets out on a mission to find the perfect spot in his house to display the painting. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There are Grand Marnier cakes and napoleons with striped icing and chantilly cream. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mig turned seven years old, there was no cake, no celebration, no singing, no present, no acknowledgment of her birthday at all other than Mig saying, “Uncle, today I am seven years old. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“And as far as the dancing goes, if you inherited my moves, the lesson will be a piece of cake.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

When she stops, I keep going, Dizzy and sick — Inside my belly A merry-go-round Of hot dog, chips, Pink lemonade, And cake with ice cream. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Penelope demonstrated what to do, and soon their faces were covered with cake crumbs and milk mustaches. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

We all clap big for the first-place winner, and then the library staff passes out cake and ice cream. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Cady seemed to be able to sense things about her cakes, deep in her bones, the way Miss Mallory could with her orphans. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

From inside his coat he pulls a slightly squashed chocolate cake with “Happy Birthday Harry” written on it in green icing. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

As Cole swam, he thought about Garvey and the stupid cake demonstration. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The final bowl contains payesh, a warm rice pudding Ashima will prepare for him to eat on each of his birthdays as a child, as an adult even, alongside a slice of bakery cake. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Owner grabbed the fork from her so suddenly that Cady almost dropped the cake on the floor. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He called to Palmer’s father, who was in the kitchen planting candles in the cake. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“And you couldn’t handle the teacups. Would you ask one of your friends to serve the cake?” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I will miss her apple cake, but I’m happy that I get to spend time at Sara’s house. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Two cakes, one marked chocolate and one vanilla, rest in bakery boxes on the counter. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Then she turned the whole thing upside down and lifted the skillet, revealing our birthday cake. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

His shoes are caked with dirt—1 know Mom must've scolded him about that. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She’s carrying a cup of tea and a slice of cake. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And if my womb is withered and my female parts accursed, is there a special cake for that as well? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Afterward, Lola announced that for her death she wanted a FUNeral and for all the guests to sing Michael Jackson songs and eat a mango sheet cake with her face on it. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Grinning stupidly, they stuffed the cakes whole into their large mouths. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Peach dusted the cake pans and looked like a walking bag of flour. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey took a cake of soap and washed herself, head to foot, hair and ears, toes and fingers, face, torso. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Put her in an asylum, Helen. It’s the humane thing to do,” Mrs. McCraw said between bites of cinnamon nut cake. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But wanting all that just made Ivy angrier because she had no home and she had no birthday cake and right now, she might as well have no Layla and no family. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Arturo came home from work each day tired and hungry, the crevices of his skin caked with dirt. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She thought about begging further, and maybe even trying to work some tears out of her eyes so she could get at those precious cakes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then the Water Angel sent us off with more of those marshmallow sponge cakes, and then gave each of us hugs. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

That he plucked them from the minds of passersby the way children pick currants from a cake. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had taken up a collection and bought a white cake with chocolate icing that read success forever! Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Holes in the cake and now a dent in his forehead, too. I think I ought to send all of you home!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Lunch is actually amazing, because Morgan and Bram both had birthdays over the long weekend, and Leah’s very strict about everyone getting their own giant sheet cake. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Just when I think she's finished with all her props and is ready to toss up an ending, out comes a bust of Venus made from cake frosting. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“But I thought you told me he was married,” Miss Inez said while she was putting the cakes in a box. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m actually eighteen,” I said, concentrating on my cake again. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And the rhythm of the family song was the grinding stone where Juana worked the corn for the morning cakes. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cady had just dropped Toby’s cake plate in the sudsy sink when she heard the thud from the main storeroom floor. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Sansa did not like being interrupted, but she had to admit, lemon cakes sounded more interesting than most of what had gone on in the throne room. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her maman would set up tea parties with sugar cakes and marzipan rose creams just for us. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Tyson came to my party, too, and my mother baked two extra blue cakes just for him. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’m tempted to tell her about the cake in her braces. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mary Poppins then had a great argument with Father Christmas over a cake of soap. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Biting into a tiny sugar-covered cake, I gave each of the girls the evil eye, letting them know Mamá was not a topic that we needed to discuss, not with a perfect stranger like Cecilia. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

For now, I’d enjoy the hot sun, a freshly fried funnel cake, and the warm feeling of having a friend and a whole lot of people to count on. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Forget those stupid old moons! Let’s have some lemon cake. Lemon cake, Natalie!” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hyacinth said, pulling Laney away from the dessert table, where she was sticking her fingers into the carrot cake frosting. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And by cake picnic, I mean drama kids hunched over the box like vultures shoveling cake by the fistful. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The cake itself was really good, very moist, but there was maybe too much fig. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s good. Take a seat and there will be someone coming through selling sandwiches and cakes in a little while.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Underwood brought us all some gingerbread cake and the best coffee I ever tasted. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You wagered a ham sandwich against a piece of cake? Boy, you know how much that meat is worth?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The mouse is therefore only three inches away from the cake. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

She is just smiling and picking at some crud caked in her eyes. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Wait a bit,” I said, as he began to wrap the rice cake in a plantain leaf. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother and aunts hurried to the kitchen and prepared cakes, cookies, and sweetmeats with more care than ever before. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“They nice. I got some nice wine cakes, too.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother got water from the restroom, and we made our first cake together. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Big Loomis, who naturally took his communion cake in the kitchen, was just coming around the house from the back door as Papa honked the brass horn and we all waved. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My mouth felt like I’d gargled used urinal cakes, and my cracked lips stung. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Turkey, mashed potatoes, greens, stuffing, cranberries, corn, biscuits, pies and cakes, and a special tea she made to go with it all. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, our helpers cut brown roasted ducks and arranged white moon-shaped cakes on a large blue plate. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This layer cake of manure, woodchips, and straw gradually rises beneath the cattle. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She’d seen the same expression on kids spotting a birthday cake with their name on it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Over cakes Francis was ready to talk about trivial things, while I quietly thought how splendid it would be if I could someday live in the style of a Magdalen don. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to have you, so run away and help Daisy make patty cakes.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cake is the best part—it’s yummy, and people quiet down, until the only sounds are forks scraping on plates, and smacking lips. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Jason looks like he means it, so I suggest, “Maybe he could come at the end and have a piece of cake?” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we ate lots of yellow cake and buttered popcorn. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One side of her face was swollen, and her hair and hands were caked with dirt. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Hilly talk slow, like she spreading icing on a cake. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The Forbidden Forest looked as though it had been enchanted, each tree smattered with silver, and Hagrid’s cabin looked like an iced cake. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They sat at a picnic table and ate two baskets of clam cakes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Cora kicked her beggar’s cup, the few coins flew into the hubbub, and she continued on her afternoon errand to fetch flour for her son’s birthday cake. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Two lay open and empty, sprinkled with snow like sugar on a cake. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the meantime, here’s a question for you: Do you think you’ll be able to eat some birthday cake? Or are your teeth too sore?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The stones are square and arched, black and gray, more often plain than shiny, caked with lichen and moss. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The water vanished and became a long river of cake. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Somehow there are plates of sausages, and thick, crusty bread, and even a brown cake with nuts. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then he carrying the child and she the cakes in the basket, they set out on the path across the fields, now barren with winter. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

For Marfa, It’s the lace dress, The cake with Its three tiers, The pink punch With its armada of ice cubes. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Sugarcandy Mountain it was Sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“Several kids threw cake,” Ms. Sandnes said to explain my rudeness. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

With one in his hand and one in his teeth, he whirled around to find a face caked in baby powder staring at him in shock. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“She’s at home,” I said, putting a forkful of cake in my mouth to stop myself from having to give out any more details than were absolutely necessary. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Lovely weather,” Beowulf added, carefully selecting a little shell-shaped cake from the tray. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“I just come from there. Madam was most definite: ‘Tell Sal to enjoy her cake and a night off. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman in front of them had it covered with frozen dinners, snack cakes, and two-liter sodas. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Folks had already brought over more cakes and pies, and platters of fried chicken and ham, and their good china bowls full of string beans, butterbeans, okra, and tomatoes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist the lute string with the cord on the cake boxes. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cake is cut and served, and gifts are presented to Sophia. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The snow that had caked on my socks melts into my sneakers. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cady did not even need to taste the cake to know that it was not going to win her any trophies. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The chances were slim that he would ever taste another honey cake. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Last night, when I went over there to take them a caramel cake, Robert had a cast on his arm and bandages over his eyes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Prosper was always amazed by the great care the bakers of Venice took over wrapping their cakes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ice caked the prisoner’s mustache, clumps of frozen snot. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My eyes burn, and tears stream down my face and mix with the dust that cakes my cheeks, so when I dab at them, my fingers come away muddy. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I had just set out a tray of fruits and rice cakes to go along with the liquor on the low table in the living room and went down to help him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

An expanse of pressed popcorn, of tasteless rice cakes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Her smile is as sweet as Mom’s carrot cake. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

It was, after all, at one of those late night parties in Toby’s room that I first developed my taste for chocolate cake. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Staring into the ring of candles—proud that the number of his years finally made a ring, all around the cake—Luke suddenly remembered another cake, another ring of six candles. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Priest comes back to the table right after I stuffed my face with a huge bite of cake. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

There are Sara Lee cake mixes, and the types of canned goods that sit for years until you need them. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to get a cake shaped like the Eiffel Tower, one of his favorite places in the world. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And Toby, noting my preference, has kept me in chocolate cake ever since. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

“A person should write for the love of language, not for financial gain. Your writing can be compared to a cake. The money is simply the icing.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He reached out a hand and pushed away the cakes on the table. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Bird after bird swooped and splattered, and the RECO’s eyes were instantly caked in filth. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When it’s fully decorated, the basement looks like a giant birthday cake for some pretty girl’s quinceañera. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The cafeteria just forgot there was another box in the back, and you got a slice of cake from your friend anyway. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Tom finished his hot cakes and stirred his coffee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two cakes, one vanilla and one chocolate, waited inside on the kitchen counter. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“I am a little tired...besides it does not take two to buy rice cakes.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is a marble cake a cake with surprise marbles in it?” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She was bearing an angel food cake with fourteen candles. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or she would skip the meat and cream altogether and serve crab cakes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My powdered skin makes me look like an overly frosted piece of caramel cake. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I bought her a cake, though, a chocolate one with vanilla frosting from the supermarket bakery. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Actually, Leigh’s coming over next week and I want to make a chocolate-hazelnut cake for her and the family. You can get the crushed hazelnuts for me.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I pushed my final bite of cake around my plate, creating a swirling chocolate smudge. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then she gives me a cardamom pound cake with slivered almonds on top. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Ged doled their food out sparingly, and the portent of this was plain, but both of them chewed their bit of salt fish and wheaten cake, and neither said anything. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There must have been a cake, with candles and wishes and a quarter and a dime wrapped in wax paper hidden between the layers for someone to chip a tooth on, and presents. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But how was Cady supposed to know what her favorite cake was? A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“They rode bicycles—their very own bicycles. And they had lots of books to read. They had warm beds. And food, delicious food. Ice cream, candy, cake, and cookies, all they could eat.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was caked in sweat, lime dust, and tar. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I looked down at my hands, to the dark mud still caked under my fingernails. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Chocolate cake with chocolate icing. Oh, James, where did you find it?” no • “I didn’t exactly find it,” James said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I believe there must be a morsel of blueberry cake for such a smart pupil,” praised Hannah. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later he returns, balancing two coffees and a piece of chocolate cake. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

On the table sat a tray with a teapot, cups and saucers, and a plate with tiny chocolate cakes. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted him to make catfish cakes for me to take to school for my birthday.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Khalil’s on one side of me, shoveling strawberry cake into his mouth, and Hailey’s on my other side, grinning for the camera along with me. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

At my tenth Luke hogged my candles and messed up my cake. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Just a few months before, he’d told a reporter, “Our atomic monopoly is like a cake of ice melting in the sun.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach got tight, and my palms started feeling slimy as I held the bag of cookies with both hands as if I were presenting a cake. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Tuesday, January 8,1935 The next morning seems just like normal, with Natalie watching the sun rise and then asking for lemon cake. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone gawks over how beautiful the cake is. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Now that we were looking, we still didn’t see any cake, but the scent of it was on the air—brown sugar and warm butter. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I have no more cake!” she shouted out. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’d forgotten there would be dried blood caked across my arm. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh Clint. I wish you hadn’t done that. That cake wasn’t for us.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Gretchen from Mountford said she felt sorry for me about that, but I didn’t care so long as I got cake and ice cream. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, fellowship at Christ Temple really means snack time, and snack time really means fried or baked chicken, potato salad, green beans, pound cake, and soda. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The imagination, as Lazlo had previously noted, is tethered in some measure to the known, and they were both sadly ignorant in matters of cake. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Rug pulled out from the coffee table, vases upended in a puddle of water, broken plate slivers and lemon cake scattered everywhere. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of fresh-baked cake wafted all the way from the pink house to my cot, curled into my nostrils, and woke me up. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This Detective Stevens called me a smart cookie, but she’s a whole smart cake. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

With a smile, the hotteok lady gave her one more of the piping hot cakes and shooed the kids away. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I walked over and gently took his hand which was caked with dirt. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Bubbe usually takes over our kitchen and cooks turkey, chestnut stuffing, mashed potatoes, two types of pie, and Jewish apple cake. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“What kind of cake are you making today?” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The boy was by now so full of cake he was like a sackful of wet cement and you couldn't have hurt him with a sledge-hammer. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow the whole thing -his skill, those inaccessible cakes, the praise of the camouflage expert -annoys me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if it’s the sugar or the chocolate or the cream filling, but the miniature cake makes me feel better. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Then she lined heavy soot- encrusted iron skillets with the pineapple rings for rich upside-down cakes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone gathered to gobble the cake and ice cream. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Stewart makes him a stack of corn cakes. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

They were going to burn down the cake! Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Jenny’s girls came over for Faye’s birthday cake and they couldn’t believe their eyes. They don’t talk about nothing else but how it is at Faye’s. Jenny’s sore.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I will take her this portion of meat and some cakes.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

On one side hung two pairs of sandals; on the other, a small gourd water dipper and a bag to be filled with rice cakes. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I put the bag back in my pack and take only two cakes to the Russians. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How on earth did you bake a cake like this with all the shortages?” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Right in the middle of the ice cream and cake, there was a scratching and a barking at the downstairs kitchen door. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Luke ripped open my presents, tasted the icing before the cake was cut, and as he blew out my candles, he spit all over everything—spoiling every aspect of my party. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"Why would you want to ride a smelly old horse and get all sore and sweaty when you could recline on feather pillows and eat cakes with the queen?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He pulled out the candles and cut two large pieces of the vanilla-frosted yellow cake. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The stove wasn’t even the worst of our cake troubles. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His boots were caked with mud, his hat was too small. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was caked in dirt, but when he pulled it out, the soil fell away and it glimmered white as pearl. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Meet him in the hotel lobby and he is stuffing sponge cake into his mouth. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

She’s never been able to buy them a toy or a birthday cake. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t anxious to wed; in exchange for her consent, he paid her twenty KJs every day and served a white cake with every meal. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The one where they bake all the cakes.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Normal cake production proved out of the question. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time Masvita showed the slightest willingness, a cake was thrust into her mouth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt slightly guilty because she had just stolen a pot of the millet-and-honey cakes Aunt Chipo kept to fatten her daughter up. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had brought scones as well, and some sandwiches, and an angel cake. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The comfortable bungalow was just blocks from the dictator’s huge wedding cake palace that the mobs had long ago burned down. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Seven had pineapple-jam cake with Valley and Thorn, the setting sun turned the sky the color of poppy flowers. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I stroked my purple cake, and a bruise-colored cat and then a brown stick cat darted out. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

With his fingers, Hugo shoves the last bite of cake into his mouth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

On the table sat a small round cake, listing to one side, with a squat candle in its center. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I buy some cakes from Peeta’s father while they exchange small talk about the weather. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So...,” says the kid, “you’re telling me that the cake is a lie?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes, digging into the furthest reaches of her brain to figure out what would be the perfect addition to her cake. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Chris took canned corn and peaches and cherries and lots of jelly of different kinds and a wonderful big white cake. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Some evenings, during the worst months, all the house directress has to feed her dozen wards are cakes made from mustard powder and water. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was balancing a plate of cake on top of each cup, setting them down deftly and shoving one toward me as he took his chair. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the food I had brought with me into the refrigerator—soup, vegetable cakes, tuna salad. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scrub at the caked rubbish so hard it feels like my skin is flaking off, but I'm glad to be getting cleaner. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Then he cut the birthday cake with his Marine Corps sword. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandmother screams and curses us, but the nurse continues to jab the cloth at the wound, wiping away the caked brown blood. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michael and I are the first ones to the table and we both get edge pieces of cake that have lots of blue and white frosting. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe a little more than rice cakes this time,” I said cheerfully, winking at the boy. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then sending that dactyl up into the air had been a piece of cake really. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

At least Big Ma had the house smelling like barbecued chicken and lemon cake. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“A few bites? So you’re planning on eating that mountain of cake by yourself?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Seven different kinds of cake,” Judith counted surreptitiously. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

My dad said, “You’re lucky I didn’t ask her to leave the coffee cake!” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

And when he blew out the candles on the cake, hadn’t he made a wish? The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s got a roll, carrot salad, and some kind of sponge cake on it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. Stirring. Now, suppose you took a big bite of lemon pound cake only to find more of your Big Ma’s hair in it than lemon frosting?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I gave him the cake to hold, because we still needed a snack chief. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"The cheese cake here is good," he said before I could answer. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And could you pick out a cake from the frozen foods? Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sticky molasses and egg whites coated his shoes as he picked up the cake and flung it hard at the steel door. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I can’t lie—I felt a little deflated when she said that, like cake cooked at the wrong temperature. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

With the flour and oil she got from trading eggs, Miss Maggie baked bread that made me happier than if I’d had cake, which I tasted only once in a blue moon. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then I eat three sugary cakes and a strip of ham. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Skin shriveled; lips became chapped; hair grew stiff, caked with dust. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour of sunlight and cake with Prim. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

While she spun honey across the tops of a fresh pan of cakes, she explained to me in detail how the Assumption was nothing less than Mary rising up to heaven. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who I saw instead was Miss Effie Belle Tate from next door, hurrying up the walk with a frosted coconut cake! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Cassiopeia, wide-eyed and innocent, merely shrugged and ate another cake. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Dried blood had caked around one nostril and a fine layer of white chalk covered his face and clothes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

His fingers curled around one of the cakes and slipped it off the pile. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the dirt caking my fingernails, trying to forget that these were a stranger’s leftovers, I stuck a sweet in my mouth. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She swallowed the last of the cake, then she began on the bun, watching me across it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eang and the female cousins stay at home and make crepes, sweet cakes, and cookies from corn and wheat, which we exchange for rice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I made an analogy about cake.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then, as the train chugged along, suddenly Jiichan announced showily, “NOW you may each eat a cake! It is time!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mama’s rule was: don’t buy candy or cake if you have a penny. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that she put a cake with pink and purple flowers in a cardboard box from the grocery store on the kitchen table and told us to have some. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Garrett sidles up to me, holding the cake box, his blond hair winging out from under a baseball cap. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I get home that evening, and Ma’s baked a chocolate layer cake to celebrate—a real cake, too, not no Betty Crocker. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One of those upside-down cakes from the magazine?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“What a bad girl you are! You’ve dropped your cake! Now I’ll have to go over and get you a whole new slice!” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Hands covered in cake flour and air that smells sweet. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When I saw the city, pink and white, a wedding cake arrayed on hills, a new anxiety took hold of me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Constance returned to find the others beaming at her and pointing to the cake. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I walked through the rows of the garden and saw that everything had come up; the earth had grown somewhat too hard and caked, but that had done no damage yet. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

People get on and off this train, hard faces caked with war and loss. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She dumb-shows surprise at the cake in the shape of the Island. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Helmuth is about to bite into the cake when Hugo says, "So tell us, my boy, what are you learning in school these days?" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had whipped cream, scooped tiny cakes from the baking tin, made ravioli, and stirred sauces. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Mallory asked, crossing the room to peer into the cake bowl. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I would be Alice in Wonderland after she ate the cake and grew twice her size. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped the cake on the counter and yanked off her oven mitts. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Just who is all that pound cake money being raised for, anyway?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Cady’s cakes were never the most beautiful, or the most stunning. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Even when you’ve recently turned fifteen without a birthday cake, it’s hard to be that mature about Christmas. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toby took another, bigger bite of cake, and began to settle into himself. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Werner eats one piece of cake, then another, then takes a third. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I hope she kills herself overeating cakes and plum pudding, turkeys with stuffing and gravy, hot white rolls. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the Trunchbull lunged forward and grabbed the large empty china platter on which the cake had rested. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then there are the desserts: cakes, slabs of pralines, divinity fudge. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She offered Patrolman Mancuso a torn and oily cake box that looked as if it had been subjected to unusual abuse during someone’s attempt to take all of the doughnuts at once. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He raised a chunk of cake to his mouth, reconsidered, and set his fork down without taking a bite. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I think that “cake” is a very good word in general and that people should use it as an answer to questions more often. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When he saw the little boy take the cake, he should've just ignored it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Well, with an uprising in District Eight, I doubt he’s spending much time choosing my wedding cake!” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps Mr. Donner had made some special arrangement for this one customer who regularly bought cream cakes. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were caked in manure, and I was sure Grandma wouldn’t let them into her car. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Let his mother and his sisters examine one another and share the special cake. I shall not be eating it. Nor shall I wash the noble Hizdahr’s noble feet.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They sat at the table, the rice cakes between them. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“They have plenty, you know. Giants and monsters and cake. They’re all right there, and you wouldn’t even have to give your mother a heart attack to go on one.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, Papa said he would pay one American dollar for ten cakes, and she accepted. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We’re selling squares of her sweet, sticky rice cakes, plus drinks. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

We sit at the table with Freddie, eating cake, drinking milk. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Soon, we’re both standing around Dray, his cake, his girls, and his boys raising our glasses of champagne. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I watched her eat her macaroni and cheese and fried chicken and green beans and coconut cake while I pushed my food around my plate between tiny bites. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“If you knock over another expensive cake,” says an extremely familiar whiskey-warm drawl, “I’m pretty sure your mom is gonna disinherit you.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Can’t wait to try the cake,” his father said with a smirk. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“This is the best cake in the world! Have you ever had it?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The cake sat on the center table, whole but for the thin slice she had cut off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

For dessert she made an apple or peach cobbler and sometimes pound cake. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He’d had the chicken and the beef and a couple slices of cake. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

She went on stirring and muttering, and telling Fern to stop asking about things no one needs to know or there would be no cake for her. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

One afternoon Chew Wong opened the oven door and was leaning in, on tiptoe, to see whether a cake was browning on all sides. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cake has a mortarboard on it in blue icing. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Arthur looks around, and we smile for a photo while the cake is still lit. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Friday morning, I come in to see three-quarters of a chocolate cake setting on the counter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I pluck a chocolate flower from a cake with my fingers and nibble on it, so beyond worrying about manners. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sails back and forth behind the bakery counter, explaining the ingredients in her cakes and pies to her clients. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A piece of cake, apart from the bit at the end where the pinpoint turned out to be next to a ruddy great prison!” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Wedding cakes are not baked as much as they are built. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

These were the ingredients in his cake, and they sucked! Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Is this cake? You got me a cake?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Luna cried, grabbing cake by the handful, smearing multicolored icing across her face. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Then I spot an older picture—I look past the cake and me ready to blow out the candles. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

We always shared one piece of birthday cake. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was a caked face with cracked lips and eyes peering out of swollen, blackened lids. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Jerome should’ve brought you to supper. I didn’t know he had a good friend. You like cake?” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

He would buy fresh-salted fish, and milk and lentils, and a honey cake—many honey cakes! The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Surviving on this island would have been a piece of cake had he wanted to stay, especially with supplies. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Not to mention a distraction from the incessant prom talk, the bitter icing on the rotten cake of senior year. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Lola carries in a tray of rice cakes wrapped in banana leaves and two glasses of milk. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

As quickly as she could, Francesca made her way across the lawn, her shoes caked with mud. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I noticed,” she said, rubbing a cake of honey-colored blush with a soft brush. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The Easy-Bake oven kit had everything needed to use it, including pans and powdered cake mix. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Those were delicious, colorful cakes such as you could get in Little Tokyo, by downtown Los Angeles. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She served roast turkey on Thanks- giv-ing and heart-shaped cakes on Saint Valentine’s Day. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You just get your kicks from powdering your nose and putting on aprons and baking cakes with Mama, and not going to dances?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He places several wrapped snack cakes on the counter. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I notice that your birthday cake is in the shape of a Snitch,” Scrimgeour said to Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, like, don’t tell her it’s a cake or anything,” Zach Oh says. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Still and all, two cakes weren’t anything like equal to the trouble Miss Love went to on the day before the funeral. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I press my hands to my stomach, then run them over the mascara cakes and pastille waxes and hair-color pomades and texture wands. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“You and Biddy are going to be roommates,” Ms. Evans say, like she’d just hand me chocolate cake with a money filling. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She says love isn’t perfect and so why should a cake filled with love be? Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I was almost too miffed to even look down, but when I did, I saw a dark velvet box where the chocolate cake was supposed to be. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“And she still makes the best red velvet cakes you ever had in your life.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I made you some cake,” Cady said, holding out the small plate with the fork balanced just so. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The supper would be delicious—omelets never fell and cakes rose to balloons of lightness, biscuits fluffed up, and no one could season a stew like Agnes Morrison. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The music is loud and the cake is big and the pasteles that her mother's been making for three days are absolutely perfect. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She offered him a honey cake, but he shook his head, which was a dead giveaway right there that he had something on his mind. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen yielded no lemon cakes, but they did find half of a cold strawberry pie, and that was almost as good. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I sat at the kitchen table eating the cake with a glass of milk, but I couldn’t finish. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

In her hand was a plate of cake, her fork frozen halfway to her face as she stared at Toby through the windshield. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He tensed his fingers excitedly around the cake plate. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I baked a cake, which was lopsided but tasty, and Silly and I spent the whole day calling ourselves the Shirondas and singing and dancing wildly to the radio. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Three slices of cake later, we begin a game of Fonetik. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

All Chinese food — a bowl of sweet, hot soybean milk, and two long, twisting oil sticks to dip in it; also two onion cakes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed that there was tons of other food lined up on the counters, including a couple of already cooked turkeys, a few hams, and a whole bunch of pies and cakes. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I shoved the snow in my mouth like a toddler eating cake. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I thought you might like a piece of cheese cake," he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I wouldn't have believed anyone in the world could eat the whole of a cake that size." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jake swung the pickax to break up the gravel, which had cemented itself together with caked dust. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

There was that diaper spread over Susan Marie’s shoulder, and her gloved index finger pointing out the church cake, that white finger inviting him to slide a mint between his lips. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Almost desperate, I asked for half a cake; she again refused. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Freeman: “Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The next thing I knew, that little kitchen was filled with boys pushing and poking and grabbing at that cake. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

After cake and cafecitos, the cousins will disperse down these paths to their several compound houses. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Turned the hoe- cake with a plate and then made a little laugh. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I sold sandwiches, coffee, candy, cake, and ice cream as fast as the railroad’s commissary department could supply them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Thorn had finally finished the new Witches of Heartbreak Cove, and they were going to her house to eat pineapple-jam cake and talk about the book. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I also use lemons to make cake; lemons are very good for the body,” Harrison said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ilse checks my belly, tut-tuts, and shuts herself in her room to eat cake with a Nazi SS officer named Rolf while my thirteen starve in silence above her head. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“It is ill luck to look at cakes before the New Year,” he replied hastily. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“How about stirring up a batch of flannel cakes?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached out a hand and found that his clothes were already caked with the sandy clay of the riverbed. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a giant cake, shaped like a huge, perfect donut. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Toys and harps and kittens, cakes and crowns and butterflies. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Three women wheel out a thousand-layer crepe cake with massive strawberries the size of snow globes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

We’d have hot chocolate by the fire, and slabs of devil’s food cake. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They had dinner at Hooters and bought her a cake. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been hankering sweets something awful. My gran used to whip up cakes out of nothing. I figured I could do the same.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

As I sit down, I see a slice of chocolate cake with two forks resting on the plate. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The cake trembles and then tilts forward, as if contemplating the distance to the ground. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What you feed Miss Walters at bridge club today? I worked all morning making that fool a caramel cake and then she wouldn’t eat a crumb.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I think you need some sugar. You’ll probably have too much tomorrow, with your birthday cake. But let’s get a cookie.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He wanted to own a car and eat fancy cakes he saw in bakery widows. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Ugwu heard the sound just before they cut their cake in the living room, the swift wah-wah-wah roar in the sky. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As Cady swooped the last curl of peanut butter frosting onto the two-tiered peanut butter cake, she had a whole hour before she and Toby needed to leave for the competition. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He stepped out with a big cake in hand and gave it to the grooms, who quickly devoured it, then said good-bye to his horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not answering, Ralph shuffled aggressively on, stealing a look at the boy’s surprised face — pink as a sweet cake. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arya would have given anything for a cup of milk and a lemon cake, but the brown wasn't so bad. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I look at the cake my mother is frosting, the number “10” on the top, just like every other year. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes lingered over the crushed bakery box, cake and icing oozing out the seams. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mama turned me by the shoulders so I’d look at her instead of the cake. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Fried chicken and boiled ham, baked sweet potatoes, peach pickles, big buttermilk biscuits, cookies, cakes, apples, boiled eggs, I don’t know what all. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Beans’s mother—Palmer had to fight the temptation to call her “Mrs. Beans”—was a perfectly normal-looking woman whose teeth were as white as the icing on her son’s tenth birthday cake. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The rest of our last class together was spent eating pizza and cake and sharing our favorite moments from the week. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

My heart, which had been so full of hope on the whole long ride to town, slumped like a fallen layer cake. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Harry had perched the chocolate cakes on the end of the banisters. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Masood stood next to a table piled with cakes and cookies. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It’s been a joke with Grammy that, no matter how hard she tries, her cakes are always crooked. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Then Mama and I cooked six tuna casseroles six different ways, and we baked four chocolate cakes and dusted them with confectioners’ sugar. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The slogan today says, “Happier than a unicorn eating cake on a rainbow.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Then men came bearing a chair and a low stool, and one brought a salver with a silver flagon and cups, and white cakes. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Part of the cake fell to the floor; it was only a box of crumbs now. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother took a break around midday to make a lunch of thin griddle cakes. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“More tea, I think,” said Dumbledore, closing the door behind Harry, Ron, and Hermione, drawing out his wand, and twiddling it; a revolving tea tray appeared in midair along with a plate of cakes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Leeches crawled over my limbs to help me push through, and I had to eat pastille cakes and skin-color pastes to quiet my stomach. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen she discovered a bag of rice cakes and some lettuce. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Take, for instance, a 1999 study that has to do with chocolate cake. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I only found those Heavenly Hamburger places, where they serve giant hamburgers and soup-of-the-day and four kinds of fancy cake at a very clean counter facing a long glarey mirror. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Uncle Pa Keating brings stout, whiskey and a little sherry for Aunt Aggie’s delicate stomach and she brings a cake loaded with currants and raisins she baked herself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Come,” the father said, “have some tea. My wife will bring out some cakes and snacks.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

"But I think it's got as much to do with your hair being red and your hands being soft . . . and the fact that you smell like homemade birthday cake." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“She’ll be back after a while to bring me a piece of cake with fine white icing.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope it’s just the very best you ever ate, Mr. B.,” she said, as if she’d forgot me and wanted him to have the whole dang cake. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Markets in the city were booming with abundant supplies of dried, fresh, and processed foods, including milled rice, tofu, crackers, cakes, and meat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

This year we—minus two, with Mom working—had to settle for homemade yellow cake smothered in chocolate frosting. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The lobster cakes were hot and buttery, brown and crunchy on the outside, sweet and white on the inside. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It’s Mateo as a kid, his dad, and a Toy Story cake. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was baking a cake in the wash basin. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His beard was brown with caked blood, but a trickle of red still leaked from his neck. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then for dessert the women brought us generously cut slices of pearly white cake. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I like cake—love it, in fact—but it wasn’t eating I was thinking about. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Beck’s head was also caked with a thick armor of frost. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A bent bicycle wheel and one soccer boot, caked in silt. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I had earned two annas, and I spent it on a rice cake for us to eat in the morning. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Especially children. Children get a big sweet cake all to themselves.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But we didn’t get the cake, we got glazed twists.” says Gat. says Johnny. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Everything is covered with a fluffy layer of white, like a wedding cake you don’t want to cut into. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He brought me a brush, a bucket of steaming water, and a cake of lye soap. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, there’s Bep’s engagement, the Pentecost reception, the flowers, Mr. Kugler’s birthday, cakes and stories about cabarets, movies and concerts. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

One day she would bake the perfect cake for herself. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He cut the cake and stuffed a piece in his mouth before Piper could warn him it might be poisoned, or inedible for mortals, or just plain bad. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She likes looking at the walls, at how neatly their corners meet, the linoleum roses on the floor, the ceiling smooth as wedding cake. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank goodness,” Mom said, cutting me a thick slice of leftover lemon cake. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“No, it isn’t morning yet. You must go to bed, and not trouble poor Mamma. Then you can have the little cake with sugar on it.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Penelope had made her way back to the barn carrying a basket full of fresh-baked plum cakes and a large pitcher of milk, the sun had already dipped far below the horizon. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

This air made him think of bonfires on autumn nights, of logs crackling in a fireplace, of Mom lighting candles on his birthday cake every single year, every single birthday. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It looked nice, but that type of cake is way too sweet for me. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

A dishpan of coffee was on the stove and iced cakes filled a shelf in the cupboard. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Baba would meet them for tea and rowt cake at the park, drive them crazy with his politics. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Only the bow was stuck, like a knife in a rum cake. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She served him a plate of pork chops, butter-drenched green beans with bacon, and mashed potatoes with brown gravy, and she got out the piece of lemon cake she’d tucked up in the cupboard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mack and the boys knew that, but Mack said, “Where we going to get a big cake? Lee hasn’t got nothing but them little bakery cakes.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the window, the bride and groom on the wedding cake point at me and laugh—the air becomes charged with laughter until I can’t stand it—and the two cupids wave their flaming arrows. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

And when it came time to order ice cream, as soon as Zoey changed her order from chocolate chip cookie dough to birthday cake, so did Haley. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

As Dad starts cutting the cake into slices, I run inside the cabin to retrieve my gift for Mom. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She offers me mud cake after a while. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

"I do the cakes," he admits to me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Is that right? Then who gon’ make red velvet cakes for us?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Smoke of the first fires seeped out through the walls of the brush houses, and the first smell of cooking corn- cakes was in the air. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Mrs. Ogilvie recounted what she thought was a hilarious story about “Monsieur L’Ambassadeur,” I tried to reach the cake plate. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was caked along with sand in every pore of my body. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

This morning I made two cakes and a batch of cookies. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Inside was a big piece of his birthday cake. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

As I whipped, beat, and stirred the lemon cake batter, I missed hearing my sisters’ voices and having them around me. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I mean, she had a good reason and everything — it was finals time at college — but it sucks having hospital cake for your birthday. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Help yourself, Tom,” said Hepzibah, “I know how you love my cakes. Now, how are you? You look pale. They overwork you at that shop, I’ve said it a hundred times...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Adam tried to answer, but his mouth was caked and dry. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced over at the lady, who was now slowly moving away, toward the cookies and snack cake aisle. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

How could he feast tomorrow, knowing with every bit of honey cake what was happening yonder? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She bought me another cake studded with icing flowers and adorned with my name in green letters. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Sadie started dropping by the junkyard around quitting time, usually with a milkshake for Shawn, or cookies or cake. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He found the leftover half cake covered and sitting atop the refrigerator. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

James stood in the muddy water and washed out their underwear, using the cake of soap. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How ’bout some pound cake on the house then? The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

In the end we bought the fried pancakes, one each, paying six annas for the three, and four annas for two rice cakes. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even had dessert, a store cake with stiff, oversweet chocolate frosting, and a bowl of apples and bananas. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly distributed the small pieces of apple cake and went through refilling coffee mugs. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Sibyl, too, had some cake for him and he gave them no trouble. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he and the little boy shared the cake and babbled the doings of the past few hours to each other. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the sunlight, telephone wires looked like glass strings high overhead, bushes glistened like cakes made of diamonds, starbursts of frost etched themselves against our windows. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Long, unfamiliar words ending in tion, ism, and actic, with more talk about “the people” thrown in for good measure, like Big Ma throwing a pinch of salt into the cake batter. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she moved up to the table to select her cake while Miss Lulu played another dramatic roll on the piano, and everybody applauded. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The man with the red face squeezed the cake in his hands and broke it into four pieces. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grunted and offered him another rock cake. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Say it’s not like one a my cakes, it’s a fancy recipe she got out the Gourmet magazine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

One could not ask hungry people only to see cakes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Absolutely. Chiffon cake was created by a California man.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I once read an English story where a little girl got a big pink cake and presents wrapped in shiny paper and bows for her birthday. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t seen Mama’s cake tray, the metal one with the matching covered lid, when we came in. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

After a big wedge of layer cake she pulled back from the table. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom, Dad, and I had cake and ice cream and played Monopoly, which Dad declared was the greatest game ever invented. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She had a distant memory of the taste of real tea, buried with her recollections of sugar and birthday cake. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She studies the cakes inside the glass case. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

With his fingers, he shoves cake into his mouth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

His people brought him a little supper of chocolate and sweet cakes and fruit, and he stared at the food discontentedly. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Mother’s birthday, she received a real mocha cake, prewar quality, from the office. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Because the cover looked extremely familiar: two googly-eyed sheep made out of chocolate-frosted cakes with gobs of mini marshmallows for fleece. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Ammu was repelled by the medicinal smell of stale alcohol that seeped through his skin, and the dry, caked vomit that encrusted his mouth like a pie every morning. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why do I have to go over there? He’s the one who pushed me into the stupid cake—shouldn’t he have to come here and go on SNL with me or something?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Alex told himself it wasn’t because she was no longer strong, but because there were so many candles on her cake. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Let us eat this cake and be glad for it.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was a large, sticky chocolate cake with Happy Birthday Harry written on it in green icing. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

His mom stood beside him holding a huge chocolate cake on a tray. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I sit at an empty table and eat the rest of my cake. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He could skin a bear, repair a watch, build a house, bake a cake, darn a sock, or catch a trout with a bent pin and a piece of string. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the cake, barely visible underneath a thin layer of crumbs, was a fist-size piece of paper. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Obviously, this was a piece of cake for you.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Would they even be able to appreciate how good the cakes were? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I slapped the cow dung into nicely shaped cakes and plastered them to the walls, a neat handprint on each one. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

As she drank her orange juice, she noticed the cake. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

We were eating a lunch of ordered-in sandwiches at his desk, grilled Reubens, com chips, pickles, hot coffee, fried honey cakes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sampled the cake to prolong the silence. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The blood had caked black and the task needed patience. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was Christmas and she was making a cake. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought me stacks of moon cakes, round and yellow like the full moon. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I wished it could have been Zach standing next to me so I could lay the cake on his tongue. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grabs a rag and rushes to the oven and jerks the cake out. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As I ate, I noticed Wahid’s boys, all three thin with dirt- caked faces and short-cropped brown hair under their skullcaps, stealing furtive glances at my digital wristwatch. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark he thought of the bull-necked man crumpled on the floor in the cake crumbs, like the strangled bull in the cattle chute, and he walked faster. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Gay asked what sort of cake I wanted, I said, “I don’t care.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She tugged an oven mitt onto each hand and opened the oven door, then set the cake pans on the center rack. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as they ate the cake, they could all feel it: Jimmy Zizmo’s soul was leaving the earth and entering heaven, where it couldn’t bother them anymore. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Uncle Bob’s turkey tastes like cardboard and his lemon pound cake looks like Jell-O, but Hospital Santa has everyone singing and all this joy is spoiling my mood. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

At the boardwalk amusement park, Kevin and I rode a few rides and ate funnel cake, but the upcoming court date hung over my head like a dark cloud. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

People are shameless when it comes to cake. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Mae dipped a finger into the icing on the cake and popped it into her mouth. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“It must get awfully boring sitting there, watching cakes bake.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He so caked with mud and matted leaves, I can't even see his clothes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Everyone quieted to see this lump of rags, shuffling forward, his weight leaning on a gnarled stick, his legs bent like bows and caked with mud. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was even an icing airplane flying across the cake. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

His legs were caked with snow to the knee, his head and shoulders shrouded in white. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When I’d had my fill of discussing cake flavors and party dresses, I got up and walked over to where Little Jimmy was writing in his notebook. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems that the minute the truck driver heard the word cake, he shut the door he had started opening. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, like, don’t tell her it’s a cake or anything,” Zach Oh says. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Naomi and Muff are making pineapple upside-down cake,” she said with an evil grin. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I bring out some dried fish and rice cakes. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell Arthur you and Samantha might crash here too, but you have to do me a favor. Pick up a cake that says...” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Three successive times, they encountered and were rescued by well-fed Aborigines whose home was that desert, and who plied the explorers with fish, fern cakes, and roasted fat rats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When it was published in the New Yorker, my mom and I had Mrs. Brown make him one of those picture cakes, with the cover of the issue his poem was printed in. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Before they left, Baap brushed my hand with his and slipped me a coconut cake. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

They’re filthy, barefoot, their skin caked in dirt, their hair a wild mess. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The French had tired of a greedy queen who ate cake. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Someone has rinsed it out, so, while it’s not exactly clean, it’s not caked with blood, either. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s beautiful! It’s perfect! It’s the best cake I’ve ever had!” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

For a second I thought it might be Pita looking for fireflies, but she was standing at the cake table, digging into her second helping. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It tore away a chunk of stone, like a three-year-old grabbing a piece of cake, and hurled it inside. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She called One of her friends from Saint Agnes to bake the shower cake cheap. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go to the cafeteria,” Will says, “and eat cake.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

For a moment they all seemed lost in their own private enjoyment of the cake. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

One of the monks knelt beside the boy, who still clutched the sticky cake in his hand. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Penelope had brought three tin cups from the kitchen and poured each full of milk to wash down the cakes. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Now they stood between the teeming crowds of people and the increasingly sensational cakes on display, searching for some way they might possibly be needed. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

"They don't deserve this cake," I said between bites. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Like everyone else, Palmer ate his ice cream and cake, but he wasn’t hungry. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

There are food carts on every corner, selling everything from ripe mangoes to sugarcane, from Western cakes to French crepes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get a double scoop of pistachio, and Hana gets her boring chocolate chip, and Daddy gets cake batter with cookie pieces crumbled in it. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m gonna use it to put a cake in,” the mother said. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a snack cake, turned it over to check the expiration date. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

They didn’t have time for breakfast, but Mareth passed out chunks of cake and dried beef to eat on the journey. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We’re working on a cake that involves three varieties of milk when she turns to me and smiles. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

A hangman’s noose dangled from the wall, as did assorted weapons and a blanket caked with blood. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A century later, in 1900, when sugar was used in jams, cakes, syrups, and tea, and every modern country was filled with factories, world production of sugar reached six million tons. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She said, “We’re baking cakes for Mary Day. It’s about time you got over here and helped us. Didn’t August tell you this was Mary Day?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would have to wait forty-five minutes for the next one, and so they crossed the street and bought clam cakes at the take-out window they had been to before. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But even when her nightmares seemed so real—down to the scratchy carpet of their apartment that would always be caked with dust—they were nothing more than flimsy images shot through with fear. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I ran after that little bus for, like, half a mile, and the dirt from the country mixed with my sweat is now caked all over my body and feet. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She put his plate of hot cakes in front of him and poured coffee in his cup and refilled Tom’s cup. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And helped myself to another slice of cake. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In the house the godling grudgingly accepted cheese and bread and cold meat and pie and coffee and a piece of chocolate cake. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yet, the children watched her eat cake and drink tea, and she did not feel at all self-conscious. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

A thick carrot soup, green salad, lamb chops and mashed potatoes, cheese and fruit, a chocolate cake. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Inés’s mother crinkled her eyebrows together, and I concentrated on my next bite of cake. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“And what cake will you be baking today?” the large woman with the chef’s hat asked Cady. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

My old friends stood around awkwardly and left the room as soon as they had finished their cake. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I remember how Khalil ate so much cake and pizza he got sick. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Four soccer boys were at the booth next to us, including Joey Witter, who kept staring at me the way you look at chocolate cake. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“This is Ron,” Harry told Hagrid, who was pouring boiling water into a large teapot and putting rock cakes onto a plate. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Oriana’s current maid, a hairy, wizened creature named Toadfloss, brings tea and cakes, meat and jam, all piled on a massive silver tray. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As I am finishing up, Izzie walks in with his clothes all caked with mud. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Their hands and faces were all caked with blubber smoke, soot from the Primus camp stove, and dirt, and some of the men tried washing up in the snow. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I had my voice aimed halfway at the coconut cake and halfway into the hall. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Behind him he heard Juana patting the cakes before she put them down on the clay cooking sheet. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I throw David a strict look as he picks a bite of cake off his plate with his fingers. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay there, his face covered with a stupid smile and red and green cake icing, until my dad ordered him dragged out by his legs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As awkward moments go, this one just took the cake. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is not a fancy cake, but it is very, very good. It is my great-grandmother’s recipe.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

My mom sat beside him and handed us pieces of pistachio cardamom cake. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

After the tea was gone and the cakes were eaten, Julian opened his presents. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It was no big deal,” Mrs. Hidalgo said as she distributed slices of cake. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The cakes were arranged end to end on a long table, and they were beautiful to behold. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone sang the regular birthday song to me and then my sisters and I sang our version just before the wishing and cake cutting began. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Rule Number Three—” Mama jerked my chin back around to face her because that cake had lured me in again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Pita bit into a tiny sweet morsel of cake and nodded even as she sniffed back her tears. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I carved a massive cake of beeswax into bits and rolled them in my hands until they softened— no long task, for a burning heat came down from Helios, lord of high noon. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to focus on the talk, which has turned to our interview costumes, when a girl sets a gorgeous-looking cake on the table and deftly lights it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

All Miss Effie Belle did for Grandpa that day was bring over a chocolate cake and a caramel cake. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But I heard the music, and I had seen balloons and the cake she baked through the open door into the kitchen. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“A scullery maid. Of no account. But our cook, Mandy, has cakes fit for a prince.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The third little cake was downed just as quick. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She walked into the kitchen, where Dill stood behind the cake, candlelight illuminating his face. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“But why worry, tomorrow everyone will have cakes and beer. Aye,” he mused, “Great Osiris is ready to loose his flood over the land once more. Seen any hangings lately?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He can almost reach the cake by leaning forward, but not quite. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Skim milk, crusts, middlings, bits of doughnuts, wheat cakes with drops of maple syrup sticking to them, potato skins, leftover custard pudding with raisins, and bits of Shredded Wheat. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“I know. I promise we’ll have cake as soon as I get home. Okay?” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was wearing an ordinary denim uniform with no insignia of any kind and high boots with spurs that were caked with mud and dried blood. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

At the end of the hallway she turns and says, “Have a piece of cake for me, all right? The chocolate. It’s delicious.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay. That was better than eating crab cakes any day,” I say, thinking about how much Papa Joseph would have liked him. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She also instructed the kitchen to bake plum cakes, and the scent of fruit and cinnamon was already wafting through the house. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She jumped up, dumping her cake to the floor. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it very unfair that a bride should not have a coconut cake on the day of her own wedding. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I was done, Betty Allen kept her hands on my shoulders, and we both stared together down at the cake. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“If Dad catches us making fun of the Marine Corps, he’ll make us eat that cake.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had made a vanilla cream cake with custard and spun sugar. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

‘That Penelope was a hot little honey cake!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Her worst mistake is decorating a christening cake in bold red script with the words “In sympathy.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my back to Jack, I beg her with a look to stop, but he grabs a rice cake and hurries out. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“I bet Sammy to a race. First one to the flagpole and back. If I won, I’d get the slice of cake in his bag. If he won, he’d get my ham sandwich.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then the junior wife took the plates away and brought—Nhamo had to think hard to remember the word—cake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Use a fork for cake, not your fingers.’” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a big chocolate cake in the shape of a heart set out on the long buffet with seventy-one candles—one for good luck. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“For your birthday,” she’d start, “I baked a beautiful cake. Six layers.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a handful of other witches in the small café, sipping on tea and nibbling on dainty cakes in the shape of different animals. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

"Come on, Gramps. I smell the cake. Shouldn't you check on it?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She pretended to clean up spilled cake, and to get Jemima another piece. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

His face was caked with dirt, and the smile showed his teeth. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a frosted cake, cut exactly down the middle. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Lily bought lemon cake mix—and I planned to bake up a lemon cake. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

One of them stands up, and I see that he's wearing the fancy sleeves of a troubadour, though they're caked with the dirt of the road. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She let Harry watch television and gave him a bit of chocolate cake that tasted as though she’d had it for several years. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Grandma always hummed as she baked, especially when she prepared gingerbread men or coconut cake. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

No one answered when he rang the front doorbell because we were all in the back loading the cake into the red wagon, so he walked around back to the patio. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Well, Will had added the cake part himself, but it really did belong in any good adventure. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Finn smelled cake and apple pie, and his stomach turned him in the direction of the refreshment stand, the goat trailing behind. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But from the first the cake had acted strangely. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joyce poked her head out and said in a sugary, white- woman-in-the-movies voice, “Baby, you go get some wood. Daddy and I going to light a fire, then I’m going to make you some cake.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a deep breath and blew it out hard, like he was facing a birthday cake with too many candles. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Cady bent to pick up the fork that had fallen off Toby’s cake plate. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The conference table is completely covered in desserts—tall frosted cakes, huge plates of cookies, steaming pies. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Among the four friends, there was the feeling that neither calendar nor cake made a birthday, not officially. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I imagine them in their cold graves, calling out to their mothers and fathers, “Don’t forget our birthdays! Celebrate for us. Eat cake for us.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Emma carried a white paper shopping bag filled with “leftovers” from their backstage banquet feast: an aluminum tray of cheese ravioli and two extra slices of chocolate mousse cake with raspberries on top. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Any chance your mom might be able to help me by making a birthday cake for my mom for tomorrow? I...don’t have a lot of the stuff you need to make a cake.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I was just trying to see what kind of cake you are,” Cady replied, offering an embarrassed little grin before taking a small nibble of cinnamon cake herself. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Not a clue. I keep wishing I could bake a cake or something,” he says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A couple mothers had a table spread out with plates and napkins and a big white bakery cake that had Congratulations written on it. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was glad of the scones and the angel cake. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They’re both wearing cone-shaped birthday hats, and Daddy carries a huge sheet cake with candles lit on top of it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Aunt Sarah’s just made a cake. Wouldn’t you like a piece?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe, they called the Southern bread, cake, just for fun. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Chinese bakery downstairs from our flat displayed my growing collection of trophies in its window, amidst the dust-covered cakes that were never picked up. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

So many good smells are floating through the house—cinnamon scones, lemon pound cake, chocolate cake. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For as everyone was laughing at Sunny’s cry for cake, the important-looking man with all the warts on his face was sneaking toward the controls for the lighting of the theater. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She walks back out, now holding a pair of blue jeans, knees stained with grass and dirt, blood caked around the ankles, pockets torn with holes and unraveling. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Alicia, are you pregnant?” she asked, still standing with a cake knife poised in the air. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

That night Liyana dreamed a cake fell off its plate into the sea and floated away from her. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their joy was evident in the way they nodded and grinned while they resumed shoving cake into their mouths with reckless abandon. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A gash on her knee was caked in dried blood. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Everyone needs cake,” Drew said, coming up next to Taryn, who grinned at him. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Daniel orders us patbingsoo, which turns out to be shaved ice with fruit, small, soft rice cakes, and sweet red beans. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Piece of cake,” he said to François, who wandered in and stopped to sniff the frame in obvious admiration. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I may have eaten a little cake, too. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She remembered small moments, and these moments came to her now: A birthday cake cradled in her mother’s hands, with white peaks of frosting and animal crackers around the edges. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Her teeth were a dark red, as though caked with blood from the initial beating during her arrest. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He had been clearing the irrigation channels and strengthening the dams, the fork he carried was caked with soil and water. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cake turned out crisp on the outside and moistly soft inside, and he cut slim slices and took them out in saucers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mind,” said Meggie, whereupon Paula took a huge knife, cut an enormous piece of cake, and put it on the table in front of her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

At his request, they assemble an assortment of little cakes for him to take back to District 12, where he can examine their work in quiet. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boy blinked a few times, then sat up abruptly and grunted like an animal, he and the little one suddenly yelling at each other as they gathered the cakes into their newspaper. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I cut through the crowd, emerging minutes later with two hot moon cakes dripping with chilled cream. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The king’s supply of traveling cakes saved her and Dragon from hunger, but Minli wished for the thick silk blanket. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Seven smiled at the message as she walked into the kitchen, where her mother, Fox, was putting the celebration cake in the fridge to cool. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They made chocolate sheet cakes, pork chops, fried squash, and the flaky, soft biscuits that were her specialty. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey washed out all of their underwear, using the cake of soap on the sink. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the seconds it took to really get going, cake flour blew up from the mixing bowl and swirled around the room, recipes flapped off the counter and caught fire on the stovetop. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

For a moment she closed her lids, pale and unprotected compared to the blue that caked the rest of her face. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The hearth was caked with cold black ash, the room unheated but for candles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When she had finished, she put the small cake on the top shelf of the dish cupboard. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were bowls of chicken and rice, spinach and lamb, big crunchy apples, pretty yellow cakes, and big kettles of sweet milky tea. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She takes food, a cake or pie or loaf of bread baked by Rita, or a jar of jelly, made from the mint leaves that grow in her garden. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s making some sort of cake that she won’t let me have a piece of because someone more important’s coming over. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I would need a full bath later to peel the layers of grime away, but it was so nice to see the skin on my hands not caked with dirt. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Should we split up the list? I can make the beef stew and the cheesecake. Do you want to do the roasted vegetables and carrot cake?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He loved the boiling fat’s crackling hiss that cooked his fries and funnel cakes. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Welcome to the last day of school, where there’s music and movies and games, singing and laughing and smiles all around, cakes and cookies and fun for everyone. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

If it was Tommy, she’d be asking him how university’s treating him, offering him a Coke or a piece of cake. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Lazlo had never even seen cake, let alone tasted it, and he’d been whipped for eating windfall apples that were more worm than fruit. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Annemarie had her birthday party with two cakes, an awful one that Julia and I made for her and a really good one her dad made. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Liquor stores sold out their stock, marketplaces sold their last fresh fish, and bakeries worked double shifts to meet the demand for cakes and pastries. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are as sweet and plain as butter- cake. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How about we take these two little bunnies downstairs, and you can tell us all about what you're working on while we stuff our faces with cake?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

How could Cady bake the perfect cake for the judge until she knew who that judge was? A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

When they arrived home at nightfall, Bull bore his son past his mother, his brother, and his sisters, past a birthday cake, and presents. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only I somehow picked up a cake meant for a bachelorette party and...well. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We carry the cake out on a silver tray, lit and sparkling. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Baltimore is home of the B&O Railroad and the best crab cakes anywhere. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Food stains appeared at every turn—melted cheese caked into the carpeting, tomato sauce drying on the arm of a love seat, a squashed eclair oozing custard all over an ottoman. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A birthday is more than cake and presents. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

On the table, with candlesticks around it, was a big white cake and a box of chocolates, and beside these a basket with a magnum of champagne peeking out of crushed ice. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m good, but baking a cake in an hour is definitely out of my league.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The cake is on its own table, the little cousins clustered around it, arguing over who will get what slice. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

After the cake is set in front of her, they begin to sing “Bella Ciao.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Remember that sheet cake I baked for your birthday last year? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

In lieu of cake and gifts, we would pool our food and present an extra slice of bread or cup of coffee to the birthday honoree. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hung heavily on the battlements, like thick icing on a very good cake, and in a few convenient places it modestly turned itself into the clearest icicles at the greatest possible length. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flavor reminds me of Dad’s favorite cake, German chocolate. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The Trunchbull was not a person who would give someone a whole chocolate cake to eat just out of kindness. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’ll have a life I’ve never dared to imagine, in a bright, snug house where there is plenty to eat—warm cake and milky tea with as much sugar as I please. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

People in Mexico and Russia and Poland will spoon out her sugar for coffee, or to bake in their birthday cakes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You could maybe help me work on Ernie’s birthday cake for when they get back,” Grandma added, her voice suddenly high and singsongy like a little kid’s, coaxing. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Miranda, then nine years old, had been too frightened to eat the cake. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m on bring you a caramel cake tonight. And I don’t want you to do nothing but set in your kitchen and eat the whole thing for supper.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I’d give anything now for a tiny piece of moon cake or a leg of roasted duck. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went back up the hill and in a few minutes was cooking myself a dinner of canned ham, cornmeal cakes, peas, and scrambled eggs. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Later that week, my co-workers surprised me with cake and a congratulatory card, and I thanked them and allowed myself to recognize the significance of the experience. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Her house had to be thoroughly cleaned, chickens had to be plucked, cakes and pies made, and for weeks she, her friends and her daughter had been sewing. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She bought two large bottles of limeade, a chocolate cake, and a new bag of apples, and went back home and ate them for dinner. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

While I was eating the sweet cake, I noticed the quote on the walls again: The more you skate, the more you learn. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, none of us say a word as we savor the sweet, creamy cake. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

‘It is a little bit like mixing a cake,’ the BFG said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the absolutely perfect cake for him. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

His socks were gone and his ankles were scratched and caked with mud. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the evening of the day of the announcement he was to cook a turkey and bake a cake. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her shoes were caked with spring mud, crusty and torn. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

His face was turned down, and I could see where mud had caked into his hair. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If Grandfather had not sent the moon cakes, would they have remembered at all? In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

As an alternative to eating cake while watching television, she turned to pistachios, and then ate a pound in a single sitting. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She took precious time, not aware of what she was doing, to set the cake of yellow soap on the washtub cover. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single candle is lit in the middle of a round chocolate cake. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Loving mischief, she spread icing over a cardboard box and presented it as a birthday cake to a neighbor, who promptly got the knife stuck. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Anyway, he spoke in Farsi, “They have these cakes here—incredible—I bought fifteen in New York.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

My glasses were so caked with mud that I could no longer see anything clearly. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The engine’s propeller was dented and caked with greenish crud. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There was a snack bar, where Mr. McDaniels was setting up a cake, and an organ in one corner, where old Mrs. Chapman, the piano teacher from down the street, was playing a polka. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aru felt a little better, and it wasn’t just because of those Spring cakes. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It tasted delicate and floral, like one of those expensive rose-flavored cakes her mom brought back from her Paris trips. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dill handed over a battered package of off-brand yellow cake mix that he appeared to have snagged from work for free. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Sue brings out a cake, and everyone sings “Happy Birthday.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I stick it inside the soft belly of a cake of blush-crème on her vanity. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Could you spare me some of your cake? I really need some, I have so much company, and I can’t make such delicious stuff as yours,” asked Meg soberly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had them make a cake—” “Pardon me, Mr. Pignati,” I said softly, “a cake?” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hair uncombed, dresses falling apart, shoes untied and caked with dirt. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Should it be bread or cakes or warm gloves or soft toys or photographs? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“But you must not have seen what just happened. This boy stole a cake from that shop, and in the process ruined the entire batch.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The day after I won an important regional tournament, the window encased a fresh sheet cake with whipped- cream frosting and red script saying, “Congratulations, Waverly Jong, Chinatown Chess Champion.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a frosted cake and homemade cone hats, and Mama wore a satiny cape and sparkles on her face and did magic tricks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wooden cases gleam, their paper-lined trays heaped with pastries and breads and cakes. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

William was caked with dark blood all over his chest and stomach and back. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

One rich woman answered the door herself and invited him into the kitchen for cake and milk and bread and jam. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Frankie pointed to a picture on the cover of the book of a birthday cake with lots of candles. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“It is very difficult to eat cake when you are toothless. The world in general becomes a difficult place without teeth.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Blanche throws her head back and walks, wobbly and caked with sand, the last few yards to her son. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I hope it involves Stella popping out of a birthday cake in a bikini!” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He was definitely looking forward to his next cake day. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

On that day and no other, ladies were received into this strictly masculine precinct and treated to sherry wine and little seeded cakes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it is sort of like a cake,” Wylan said defensively. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mami sets the cake down in front of me so I can make a wish before I blow out the candles. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Whether Cady could finally have her own Adoption Day party and bake her own cake. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And every day, my mom says, “Silly sweet pea, you can’t have lemon cake for breakfast.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at the party, my birthday cake is coming out with its seven candles. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"And yes, the cake has spirits, but all the alcohol has burned off. I ordered it specially in honor of your fiery debut." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Come inside for cake and ice cream,” I said. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her smile when she gave us our cake was the first one I’d seen in a long time. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Ivan didn’t say anything to them as he dove for the food, cramming meat patties, boiled eggs, and fried, flat cakes into his mouth. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

They killed me with mushy apples and pasta worms and little cakes that marched out of the oven and lay down to be frosted. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The city was a cake made of layers of time. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z