cake

• cake
• 1 [uncountable and countable] a soft sweet food made by baking a mixture of flour, butter, sugar, and eggs:
• cake and ice cream
• chocolate cake
• birthday/wedding/Christmas cake
• Do you want some birthday cake?
• slice/piece of cake
• Would you like a slice of cake?
• make/bake a cake
• Sally decided to bake him a cake.
• 2

  fish/rice/potato etc cake

   fish, rice etc that has been formed into a flat round shape and then cooked
• 3 [countable] a small block of something
• cake of
• a cake of soap
• 4

  be a piece of cake

  spoken to be very easy:
• 'How do you do that?' 'It's a piece of cake! Watch!'
• 5

  take the cake

  also take the biscuit British English informal to be worse than anything else you can imagine:
• I've heard some pretty dumb ideas, but that takes the cake!
• 6

  have your cake and eat it

  British English have your cake and eat it too American English spoken to have all the advantages of something without its disadvantages
• 7

  a slice of the cake

  British English a share of the profit, help etc that is available:
• Both companies expect to get a big slice of the cake.

• ➔ sell like hot cakes

  at hot cake (1)

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.