The phrase "amounts of cakes" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct term would be "number of cakes" since "amount" is typically used for uncountable nouns.
Example: "We need to determine the number of cakes required for the event."
Alternatives: "quantities of cakes" or "numbers of cakes."
Many of us have watched children arrive at a party as reasonable, polite human beings, eat copious amounts of cakes and sweets and then transform into over-excited, over-energetic little devils – so how do we account for this? .
Yet so many of us have watched children arrive at a party as reasonable, polite human beings, eat copious amounts of cakes and sweets and then transform into over-excited, over-energetic little devils – so how do we account for this?
"We had a megaphone and music blasting, and massive amounts of cake.
Hitler himself sipped some health tea during these hours of intimacy and ate prodigious amounts of cake (this cake eating was responsible for a slight digestive disorder and the addition of a 'bay window' to his already not too fortunate figure)." Music was another form of relaxation.
If you've allowed your cake to cool sufficiently, punching it with the straw should remove small amounts of cake without damaging the surrounding area.
In the war years I used to go into the bakery, buy the limited amount of cakes and take them to school in a case.
The almonds and wonderfully crunchy too and there's still a good amount of cake.
Given the amount of cake you eat, why aren't you the size of a house?
The slices look different, but contain the same amount of cake.
No amount of cake sales is going to pay off that debt".
I think it's the power of motherhood paired with the extreme competition between the mothers in the group that cooks up something bad in them (that and the enormous amount of cake that women eat in those groups).
