placenta cake

English

Etymology

From Latin placenta (“flat cake”); the dessert is the original sense of the word placenta.

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Noun

placenta cake (plural placenta cakes)

  1. (baking) A dessert cake originating in ancient Greece consisting of layered dough interwoven with cheese and honey, along with various other ingredients to suit the recipe.
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