PIECE OF CAKE

ACROSS

1 Cherry-filled chocolate sponge cake, 2 words 6 Corporate abbreviation

8 Egg and milk punch 9 Relaxation center 10 Light cake made using vegetable oil 11 High

12 Comment after eating a superb cake 14 Summer in French 16 Dessert named for the weight of its ingredients, 2 words 18 Nord’s opposite 21 Crimson-colored layer cake, 2 words

25 Setting for croquet matches 28 Custard-filled layer cake topped with chocolate, 3 words 33 Cake with pineapple on top, 2 words

36 Tater

38 “America, the Beautiful” closer

40 Cake ingredient 41 Sharpshooter Oakley 42 Caribbean holiday cake (and a liquor) 43 Creamy chocolate candy

DOWN

1 Ring-shaped cake 2 Light sponge cake made with egg whites, 2 words 3 Bite-sized chocolate candy

4 Nebraska city famous for steaks

5 Make fit

6 Steeps

7 Fruitcake ingredient, ____ cherries

10 Small slab of chocolate

13 Storybook beginning 15 Rotate

17 Cleveland cager, for short

19 Cake made from seafood

20 Fleshy purple fruits 22 Dog doc

23 Alphabet string

24 Golf driving prop 26 Like cream used in strawberry shortcake 27 Its capital is Columbia

29 Is she lazy in the kitchen?

30 Blast from the past 31 Apple drink 32 Boundary

33 America’s letters 34 Uni-Ball

35 Speedy typist’s stat 37 Fleecy Aussie boots 39 “__ I ruled the world...” song