cake

The word “cake” means a sweet baked dessert made from flour, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients. In plain terms, the sweet dessert everyone knows, or, as a verb, to build up into a hard crusty layer.

“Cake” is pronounced kayk (/keɪk/ in IPA).

Here is “cake” used in a sentence: “She baked a chocolate cake for his birthday.”

Depending on how it is used, “cake” can be a noun and a verb.

The word “cake” comes from Old Norse. From Old Norse kaka, related to Swedish and Icelandic kaka — an old Germanic word whose ultimate origin is disputed.

“Cake” is a fairly common word in modern English, usually learned at around the A1 level.

“Cake” has 2 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: a sweet baked dessert made from flour, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients.

Both are baked from flour, but cake is a sweet dessert, richer in sugar, fat and eggs, with a soft, tender crumb. Bread is usually plainer and leavened with yeast, giving a chewier texture meant to accompany meals. In short, cake is made to be a sweet treat; bread is a staple.

There are many, often grouped by method. Sponge and butter cakes are light and everyday; pound cakes are dense and rich; layer cakes stack fillings and frosting. Others include cheesecake, chiffon, fruit cake and flourless chocolate cake. Each varies in ingredients and texture, but all share the same sweet, baked character.

It is an idiom meaning something is very easy to do, as in 'the exam was a piece of cake.' It has nothing to do with actual dessert; the image is simply that eating a slice of cake is pleasant and effortless. 'A walk in the park' means much the same.