1an item of soft sweet food made from a mixture of flour, fat, eggs, sugar, and other ingredients, baked and sometimes iced or decorated:a fruit cake [as modifier]:a cake shop [mass noun]:a mouthful of cake
(the cake) British the amount of money or assets available to be divided up or shared:you have not received a fair slice of the education cake
2an item of savoury food formed into a flat round shape, and typically baked or fried:a starter of goat’s cheese and potato cakes
a flattish compact mass of something, especially soap:a cake of soap
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(of a thick or sticky substance that hardens when dry) cover and become encrusted on (the surface of an object):his clothes were caked in mud
[no object] (of a thick or sticky substance) dry or harden into a solid mass:the blood under his nose was beginning to cake
cakes and ale
dated lively enjoyment:the gardener’s life, as a rule, is not all ‘cakes and ale’
a piece of cake
informal something easily achieved:I never said that training him would be a piece of cake
sell like hot cakes
British informal be sold quickly and in large quantities:T-shirts and posters are selling like hot cakes
proverb you can’t enjoy both of two desirable but mutually exclusive alternatives:the king wanted to have his cake and eat it—to marry Mrs Simpson and to remain on the throne
