Is it wrong to say "cook a cake"?

Is it wrong to say "to cook a cake"?

Solution 1:

It's better to say "make a cake" or "bake a cake". Though you can find a lot of web pages using "cook a cake".

Examples:

He knows how to bake a cake better than anyone else.

Making a basic sponge cake is very easy.

Solution 2:

Baking is done in an oven, cooking is done on a stove-top and typically implies using water.

You can bake pies, roasts, cookies, bread, casseroles, pizza, and cakes. You can cook vegetables and noodles. It is common and acceptable to say "cook a meal" or "cook dinner" rather than "bake a meal" or "bake dinner", even if the meal was all prepared in an oven. It becomes more confusing when you consider certain other food types. Eggs can be fried, scrambled, or boiled, but you rarely hear of anyone baking or cooking eggs.

The bottom line is that bakers bake things and those things they produce are "baked", whereas cooks (or chefs) cook things and those things they produce are "cooked."

Solution 3:

It's not wrong, but it's more common to see 'bake a cake', as that is almost always the cooking method used.

Solution 4:

Provided that it is an oven based cake you should say "bake".

If describing a cake that isn't made in the oven (eg a fish cake) you could say "cook".