caky , auch: cakey

These light caky doughnuts, sometimes crispy around the edges, are often warm when you buy them.

The cosmetics are seriously vivid and a bit chalky and caky.

But olive oil does produce cookies with a caky interior and nicely crisped surface.

They are dense and caky, but not too dry if you buy them early in the morning; 60 cents each; $5.40 a dozen.

Most of the desserts are heavy and commercial-tasting, especially the caky fruit tarts.

They are small, caky and bland.

One of the first nationally distributed brands was Montrachet, a caky, hard log sold in supermarkets.

Open-face sandwiches on chewy, caky dark rye bread do not make a strong showing.

We spent hours going over the nuances in spice blends and debating if a particular texture was crumbly or caky enough.

The cheesecake was run of the mill, and tiramisu and strawberry shortcake were caky, dry numbers.

And sat before her father, digging her hand into the dry, caky soil, clenching the dirt between her fingers.

It's wonderfully caky, just on the dry side of moist, and just on the bitter side of sweet.

Italian cheesecake was chalk dry, and tiramisu was a noncreamy overly caky dish.

Two dishes quickly appear - warm, caky, though not overly sweet corn bread and an excellent 11-ingredient family-style mixed salad, dressed in homemade vinaigrette.

It has a deeply chocolate flavor, but the texture is a trifle more caky and less softly fudgy than the full-fat version.

The cannoli and Italian cheesecake are standard stuff and the pear pie had not a pie crust but a rubbery caky texture.

But it was the perfect texture - caky, firm and strong enough to remain intact as the vanilla ice cream in the middle diluted into a sticky, dreamy puddle.

Caky pandarinos the size of muffins are filled with smooth pumpkin puree; $1.25 each at Grace's Marketplace, 1237 Third Avenue (71st Street).

Big caky black and white cookies, which became symbols of New York, thanks to "Seinfeld," take Oreo-style discipline: do you eat the white side first or the chocolate?

His fig-and-almond tart ($4) is luscious, the sweetness almost dissolving in your mouth, and his brownie ($2.50) is terrific, halfway between caky and fudgy.

But unlike the Italian colomba, the Portuguese folar doce and the Swiss Easter wreath, the breads Brother Curry makes are not richly caky.

The Tutao thus baked is called "Amar"; the action of the oven having converted it into an amber-coloured caky substance, a little tart, but not at all disagreeable to the taste.

Richard Leach, the pastry chef at Park Avenue Cafe, makes financiers studded with pistachios and cradling poached prunes; they are like a pistachio tart on a caky tart shell.

The sharp and light raspberry bavarois was an ideal antidote to richness, while the chocolate mousse is an extravagant affair - caky, bouyant and circled by a moat of vanilla sauce.

AT first glance it looked like chocolate, this caky dark-brown cylinder in a pool of custard sauce at City Grill, a handsome restaurant in a former Federal Reserve Bank in downtown Atlanta.