an item of soft sweet food made from a mixture of flour, fat, eggs, sugar, and other ingredients, baked and sometimes iced or decorated

a delicious cake smothered with whipped cream

a fruit cake

a cake shop

a mouthful of cake

an item of savoury food formed into a flat round shape, and typically baked or fried

a starter of goat's cheese and potato cakes

(of a thick or sticky substance that hardens when dry) cover and become encrusted on (the surface of an object)

his clothes were caked in mud