🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

蛋糕烤盘

Pronunciation / Transliteration: dàn gāo kǎo pán

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Cake-pan/ˈkeɪk.pæn/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"把面糊倒入蛋糕烤盘中。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A metal or glass container, typically round, square, or rectangular, used for baking cakes.

    "She greased the cake-pan thoroughly before pouring in the rich chocolate batter."
  2. 2

    A shallow cooking utensil specifically designed to shape and bake individual or layered sponge pastries.

    "The recipe requires three separate cake-pans to build a multi-layered wedding cake."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term is a compound formed from 'cake', originating from Old Norse 'kaka', and 'pan', derived from Old English 'panne'. Appearing in American English during the mid-19th century as baking utensils became standardized in industrial manufacturing, it describes a specialized flat-bottomed metal container used primarily for baking cakes.

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