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Plumcake vs Spongecake - What's the difference?

plumcake | spongecake |

As nouns the difference between plumcake and spongecake

is that plumcake is a cake made with plums while spongecake is a cake based on flour (usually wheat flour), sugar, and eggs, sometimes leavened with baking powder which has a firm, yet well aerated structure, similar to a sea sponge.

plumcake

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A cake made with plums.
  • * 1833 , Parley's Magazine (volume 1, page 23)
    • Ellen's mamma was going out to pay a visit, but she left the children a large piece of rich plumcake to divide between them, that they might play at making feasts.
  • * 1914 , James Joyce, Dubliners
    • She decided to buy some plumcake but Downes's plumcake had not enough almond icing on top of it so she went over to a shop in Henry Street.
  • * 1979 , New Scientist (volume 84, numbers 1186-1187, page 26)
    • He was barely 100 m up and directly below him a merchant was displaying some lovely fresh plumcakes . The display was naturally not improved by the sand.

    spongecake

    English

    (wikipedia spongecake)

    Alternative forms

    * sponge cake

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cake based on flour (usually wheat flour), sugar, and eggs, sometimes leavened with baking powder which has a firm, yet well aerated structure, similar to a sea sponge.