oil cake

American  

noun

1. a cake or mass of linseed, cottonseed, soybean, or the like, from which the oil has been extracted or expressed, used as food for livestock.

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oil cake British  

noun

1. stock feed consisting of compressed cubes made from the residue of the crushed seeds of oil-bearing crops such as linseed

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Etymology

Origin of oil cake

First recorded in 1735–45

Example Sentences

Which is how I landed on what I now consider the perfect spring cake: a citrus olive oil cake with a simple orange marmalade glaze.

From Salon

Chocolate cake, olive oil cake, polenta cake, banana cake, white cake, chiffon cake, pound cake, almond cake . . . you get the idea.

From Salon

This olive oil pound cake works for dessert and breakfast, which means a world exists where you could eat only olive oil cake for twelve hours.

From Salon

I think just about everything Charlie Dunmire and her staff at Georgetown cake shop Deep Sea Sugar & Salt does is magic, but I especially loved the grapefruit olive oil cake from last February.

From Seattle Times

Most of the olive oil cakes I bake are whisked together, one-bowl affairs.

From New York Times