ring-cake

English

Noun

ring-cake (plural ring-cakes)

1. (US) A cake having a ring baked inside it, with slices sold as a form of lottery. Once a common feature of church fairs.
   • 1870, Jeremiah N. Thomas, “Jonadab Cleaver's Experiment; Or, the Last Church Fair at Rutway”, in Sabbath at Home‎^[1]:

     Then pointing successively to the lottery-table, grab-box, ring-cake, and cigars, he continued […]

   • 1887, “The Book World”, in The Sunday-school World‎^[2]:

     Then there is the church fair with its grab-bag having a silver pencil, and its ring-cake from which some one will get a gold ring for five cents.