If you bake, you spend some time preparing and mixing together ingredients to make bread, cakes, pies, or other food which is cooked in the oven.

When a cake or bread bakes or when you bake it, it cooks in the oven without any extra liquid or fat.

If places or people become extremely hot because the sun is shining very strongly, you can say that they bake .

A vegetable or fish bake is a dish that is made by chopping up and mixing together a number of ingredients and cooking them in the oven so that they form a fairly dry solid mass.