cake

cake [ keık ] noun ***

1. ) count or uncount a sweet food made by baking a mixture that usually contains sugar, eggs, flour, and butter or oil:

a chocolate cake

a birthday/wedding/Christmas cake

a piece/slice of cake: Would you like a slice of cake?

make/bake a cake: She was making a cake for Peter's birthday.

2. ) count a small amount of food formed into a flat round shape and cooked:

rice/potato cakes

3. ) count a small hard block of something, especially soap

have your cake and eat it too

to have all the benefits of a situation when, in fact, having one thing means that you cannot have the other

let them eat cake

used for talking about the attitude of someone who really does not care about a group of people or does not understand their problems although they pretend to

a piece of cake INFORMAL

something that is very easy

take the cake

to be the worst, most shocking, or most annoying example of something

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