Cake vs. Bread — What's the Difference?

Cake is a form of sweet food made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients, that is usually baked. In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate, and that share features with other desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies.

Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour and water, usually by baking. Throughout recorded history, it has been a prominent food in large parts of the world.

A sweet baked food made of flour, liquid, eggs, and other ingredients, such as raising agents and flavorings.

A staple food made from flour or meal mixed with other dry and liquid ingredients, usually combined with a leavening agent, and kneaded, shaped into loaves, and baked.

A flat rounded mass of dough or batter, such as a pancake, that is baked or fried.

Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life

A flat rounded mass of hashed or chopped food that is baked or fried; a patty.

Something that nourishes; sustenance

A shaped or molded piece, as of soap or ice.

Means of support; livelihood

A layer or deposit of compacted matter

(Slang) Money.

To cover or fill with a thick layer, as of compacted matter

To coat with bread crumbs, as before cooking

To become formed into a compact or crusty mass

(uncountable)

A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.

A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.

A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.

Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.

(countable) Any variety of bread.

A block of any of various dense materials.

Money.

(slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.

Breadth.

(slang) Money.

A piece of embroidery; a braid.

Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.

(transitive) To coat with breadcrumbs.

(slang) A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.

To make broad; spread.

(pyrotechnics) A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.

(transitive) To form in meshes; net.

(transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.

To spread.

(transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.

To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.

(intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.

An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.

A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.

Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.

Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked

A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.

Informal terms for money

A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake.

Cover with bread crumbs;

To form into a cake, or mass.

To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.

To cackle as a goose.

A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax);

Small flat mass of chopped food

Made from or based on a mixture of flour and sugar and eggs

Form a coat over;