cakes

1. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
2. A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.

   a johnnycake

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

   buckwheat cakes

4. A block of any of various dense materials.

   a cake of sand

5. A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
6. Money.
7. Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
8. A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.

   Mmm, I'd like to cut me some of that cake!

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

   His shoes are caked with mud.

2. To form into a cake, or mass.

verb

To cackle like a goose.