A sweet baked food made from a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients, typically baked in an oven. She baked a chocolate cake for his birthday.
A block or thick mass of a particular substance. The miners found a cake of compressed coal in the mine.
A thin, flat, round mass of cooked food (often fried or baked) made from ingredients such as meat, fish, or vegetables. She ordered a crab cake for lunch.