0 a small, round, sweet cake containing dried fruit, often cut open, heated, and eaten with butter:
toasted teacakes
It differs from a teacake and other sweet buns, which are made with yeast.
Hot water was added to the powdered teacake, or the powdered teacake was boiled in earthenware kettles then consumed as a hot beverage.
Australian teacakes are sprinkled with cinnamon and fine (caster) sugar, and are usually served warm from the oven.
