noun
rice cake
A loanword from English, referring to a cake-like food made from rice, often used for Western-style rice cakes or puffed rice cakes.
朝食にライスケーキを食べた。
I ate a rice cake for breakfast.
Variant with a middle dot, sometimes used to clarify the word boundary.
餅 is the traditional Japanese pounded rice cake, while ライスケーキ typically refers to Western-style rice cakes or puffed rice snacks.
Borrowed from English 'rice cake'.