a dish consisting of a mixture of ingredients cooked in an oven:a vegetable bake
[with modifier]North American a social gathering at which baked food of a specified kind is eaten:lobster bakes
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1cook (food) by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame, typically in an oven:they bake their own bread and cakes
[no object] (of food) be cooked by baking:the bread was baking on hot stones
2(of the sun or other agency) subject (something) to dry heat, especially so as to harden it:the soil in the desert is baked dry by the fierce heat of the sun
[no object] informal be or become extremely hot in prolonged sun or hot weather:the city was baking in a heatwave
baked in the cake
US informal inevitable or unchangeable as a result of previous actions or events:look out for the next big tax—it is pretty much baked in the cake now
bake something in
incorporate something as an integral part of a product, service, or system:we have baked in XML web services as part of the core of our platform (as adjective baked-in)the company continues to place a heavy emphasis on baked-in security
