verb phrase · informal
bake a cake
/beɪk ə keɪk/BAKE a CAKE
Band 4-5speakingtask2
to cook a cake in an oven
Examples
“She baked a cake for her friend's birthday.”
“I like to bake a cake at the weekend.”
“We baked a cake together in the home economics class.”
Band 8 sentence
“For special occasions I prefer to bake a cake myself because I enjoy controlling the flavours and decoration.”
Collocations
- bake a chocolate cake
- bake a sponge cake
Word family
bake verbbaker nounbakery noun
Common mistakes
do a cake→bake a cake
make a cake→bake a cake
Say it for a higher band
5make a cake→6cook a cake→7+bake a cake
Synonyms
make a cake
Easily confused
make a cake
“She made a cake from scratch for the party.”
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