The cakes were dry, but tasted of honey, and the wine was strong, running into me like new life.

Of the two I was able to try, little cakes of fried yucca ($5) tasted greasy and burned.

But the cakes baked up with smooth creamy interiors that tasted a little like celery and a lot like butter and almonds.

The cake tasted like ashes in Jamie's mouth.

He was more interested in what the cake would taste like, and looked down.

The winning cakes and cupcakes did not taste strongly of chocolate, an essential ingredient, some say, in the classic version of the cake.

You'll have more fun and the cake will taste better with all those loving hands involved in the preparation.

The round cakes tasted exactly like whatthey resembled-cassava bread.

The compliments paid, the formal sweet cakes tasted, she went dutifully over the wedding ritual.

The cake tasted of saccharine and fat.