Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 11th Edition
CAKE
I. noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse kaka; akin to Old High German kuocho cake
Date: 13th century
1. a breadlike food made from a dough or batter that is usually fried or baked in small flat shapes and is often unleavened, a sweet baked food made from a dough or thick batter usually containing flour and sugar and often shortening, eggs, and a raising agent (as baking powder), a flattened usually round mass of food that is baked or fried ,
2. a block of compacted or congealed matter , a hard or brittle layer or deposit, something easily done , cakey adjective
II. verb (caked; caking)
Date: 1607
transitive verb encrust , to fill (a space) with a packed mass, intransitive verb to form or harden into a mass