oil cake

American

noun

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.

oil cake British

noun

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

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oil cake

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 ● Apr. 3, 2025

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 ● Feb. 5, 2023

The cake has six layers of tender ricotta olive oil cake, each soaked with grapefruit juice and given a smear of grapefruit curd and mascarpone cream.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2022

They celebrated with champagne, 15 small pizza pies, Korean fried chicken, an orange olive oil cake and a chocolate one with ganache filling.

From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2021

They do not like the oil cake, but for the moment seem to take to some fodder left here.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Robert Falcon Scott

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