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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Um, a savory cake is called bread. OP you want bread. [/quote]

I wish the non-bakers would quit posting dumb responses.  I have a recipe for a rosemary-herb coffee cake and it is delicious.  It is made in a Bundt pan, you know, the pans used to make Bundt cakes.  Never heard of Bundt bread. [/quote]

Post your savory cake, coward [/quote]

Meat cake
TORTA DI CARNE
Ingredients for 4 servings:
Dough: 
300 gr white flour 
125 gr butter 
2 eggs 
2 tbsp of fennel seeds 
Some milk 
Some pinches of salt 
Filling: 
250 gr minced beef meat 
20 gr butter 
250 gr sausage 
30 gr dried mushrooms 
100 gr Fontina cheese (1 whole slice) 
2 leaves of lauro 
1 onion 
1 tbsp tomatoe sauce 
Dry white wine 
Some broth 
Extra virgin olive oil 
Pepper 
Salt
http://www.cookitaliano.com/recipes/meat-cake-14278/[/quote]

That's not a cake. Just look at the ingredients. I'm not sure why you're claiming it's a cake. [/quote]

The original recipe was clearly translated from Italian into English and whoever did it translated "torta" into cake. Which is incorrect in this context. It's a layered dish, hence "torta" and nothing comparable to the meaning of cake in the English speaking world. In Italy tortas can be either sweet or savory but not even Italians would call American cakes the sweet version of savory tortas.

When I was growing up my grandmother would make meatcakes in gravy, which was effectively hamburgers in gravy. But despite the name, no one ever confused it with "cakes" as we understand it.

The only savory "cakes" I can think of are the old hotcakes, which was basically pancakes. But nothing like regular cakes. In short, you can't take a typical cake recipe and make it savory because omitting the sugar turns it into something else entirely. [/quote]

OMG unreal. This is not a vocabulary question. There is a CAKE RECIPE that needs to be converted to a SAVORY RECIPE using whatever noun you want to call it at that point. A cake recipe minus sugar, plus sugar substitute. So what could be used in place of the sugar? That is a very simple question.

Apparently it can't be done no matter what it's called once it comes out of the oven (which is totally irrelevant).[/quote]

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