noun

1. a small, flat mass of dough or batter, or of some hashed food, that is baked or fried
2. a mixture of flour, eggs, milk, sugar, etc. baked as in a loaf and often covered with icing
3. a solid, shaped mass, as of soap or ice
4. a hard crust or deposit

Etymology: ME < ON kaka < IE base *gag-, *gog-, something round, lump of something (orig. < baby talk) > Ger kuchen: not connected with cook & L coquere

transitive verb, intransitive verb caked, caking cak′·ing