# Cake and Biscuit

## Expressions with cake

* a birthday cake
* a wedding cake
* a chocolate cake
* a home-made cake
* a recipe for a cake
* a slice / piece of cake

## Verb + cake

* bake / make a cake
* eat a cake
* cut a cake
* try a cake

## Expressions with biscuit

* pass the biscuits
* plain biscuit
* chocolate biscuit
* a packet of biscuits
* cheese and biscuits

## Exercise

### Verb + cake

1. Who's ***eaten*** all the cake? I was hoping to have some with my coffee!
2. I'm ***making / baking*** a special cake for Andrew's 21st birthday.
3. Would you like to ***try*** one of my mother's tea cakes?
4. Get your camera! The bride and groom are about to ***cut*** the wedding cake.

### Expressions with cake

1. I managed to blow out all 30 candles on my ***birthday*** cake.
2. Would you like another ***slice*** of cake?
3. She says these cakes are ***home-made***, but I think she got them from the supermarket!
4. This carrot cake is fantastic. You must give me the ***recipe*** for it.
5. My diet doesn't allow me to eat **chocolate** cake. It has too many calories in it.

### Expressions with biscuit

1. Annette passed round a packet of biscuits during the coffee break. - e
2. I've got to *cut out* chocolate biscuits from my diet. - d
3. Would you prefer cheese and biscuits or a piece of fruit? - a
4. I'll just have a plain biscuit if you don't mind. - b
5. Do you think you could pass the biscuits, please? - c

## Notes

1. **Note the verb + preposition in the following:**

* *She divided the cake (equally) among the children.*
* *She divided the cake into ten (equal) slices.*

1. **Note these ways of saying the cake was good:**

   *Her cakes are delicious. / Her cakes are (simply) out of this world.*
2. **The idiom *****'It was a piece of cake'***** means that something was very easy to do:**

   *The exam was a piece of cake. I finished half an hour before the end.*