[keyk] 
noun, verb, caked, cak⋅ing.| 1. | a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring. |
| 2. | a flat, thin mass of bread, esp. unleavened bread. |
| 3. | pancake; griddlecake. |
| 4. | a shaped or molded mass of other food: a fish cake. |
| 5. | a shaped or compressed mass: a cake of soap; a cake of ice. |
| 6. | Animal Husbandry. a compacted block of soybeans, cottonseeds, or linseeds from which the oil has been pressed, usually used as a feed or feed supplement for cattle. |
| 7. | to form into a crust or compact mass. |
| 8. | to become formed into a crust or compact mass. |
| 9. | a piece of cake, Informal. something easily done: She thought her first solo flight was a piece of cake. |
| 10. | take the cake, Informal.
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| piece (pēs) n.
[Middle English pece, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *pettia, probably of Celtic origin.] |
piece of cake
Something easily accomplished, as in I had no trouble finding your house
a piece of cake. This expression originated in the Royal Air Force in the late 1930s for an easy mission, and the precise reference is as mysterious as that of the simile easy as pie. Possibly it evokes the easy accomplishment of swallowing a slice of sweet dessert.
