From Old Norse kaka 'flat round bread' — originally a savory flat bread, not the sweet baked good we know today.
A sweet baked food made from a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat.
From Middle English kake, from Old Norse kaka 'cake,' from Proto-Germanic *kakō. Originally meant a flat, round bread — the modern sweet, raised cake is a later development. The word displaced the native Old English term and spread through the Danelaw regions