Cakes dream meaning is explained below using 11 different sources. Each interpretation is shown with its source.

Interpretation 1 — Patrica Telesco

(see Btiking. Eating, Frosting)

Labors that result in favorable outcomes, especially if the cake rise

Something that’s easy, possibly too easy (e.g., a “piece of cake”).

Eating cake alone can reveal selfishness, or being out of touch with the needs of others (e.g., “let them eat cake”).

Eating cake with others may be a type of initiation, or another sacred ritual. Specially prepared cakes feature predominantly in many such pagan observances.

Birthday cakes are an emblem of celebrations and wishes. This may be an actual memory surfacing, so look to see who else appears in the dream. Count the candles on the cake for numerical significance, and see who is joining in the festivities.

Source: The Language of Dreams • Author: Patrica Telesco

Interpretation 2 — Gustavus Hindman Miller

Batter or pancakes, denote that the affections of the dreamer are well placed, and a home will be bequeathed to him or her.

To dream of sweet cakes, is gain for the laboring and a favorable opportunity for the enterprising. Those in love will prosper. Pound cake is significant of much pleasure either from society or business.

For a young woman to dream of her wedding cake is the only bad luck cake in the category. Baking them is not so good an omen as seeing them or eating them.

Source: Ten Thousand Dream Interpretation • Author: Gustavus Hindman Miller

Interpretation 3 — Pamela Ball

1- When we dream of celebration cakes - such as a wedding or birthday cake we are being shown that there is cause for celebration in our lives. This maybe to do with the actual cause for celebration or to mark the passage of time.

(Candles on a cake see Candle and Numbers.)

2- Making cakes indicates our need to care for others or to nurture some inner need.

3- Sacrificial cakes, or buns, marked with the cross symbolise the round of the moon and its four quartcrs.

Source: Ten Thousand Dream Dictionary • Author: Pamela Ball

Interpretation 4 — Dream Meanings Anonymous

Dreaming of a cake is generally a good sign. Especially if the cake is one of a celebratory nature as this suggests we have cause to celebrate in life and / or to take heed of significant events in time. Sometimes the presence of a cake can mean - especially if the dreamer sees themself making a cake – someone or ourselves are in need of emotional care or healing.
Source: Dream Meanings and Dream Interpretation • Author: Dream Meanings Anonymous

Interpretation 5 — Versatile - Anonymous

Gives gender-specific: Traditionally, baking cakes was a particularly feminine activity, and therefore such dreams had more relevance to nurturing. As men develop their more caring side, cakes take on this meaning in their dreams.

To interpret the meaning of candles on a cake consult the entries for candle and numbers.

Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile • Author: Versatile - Anonymous

Interpretation 6 — Versatile - Anonymous

Cakes or buns used in religious and magical rites and marked with the cross originally symbolized the round of the moon and its four quarters. Such cakes later became eastertime hot cross buns and in dreams suggest spiritual celebrations.
Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile • Author: Versatile - Anonymous

Interpretation 7 — James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver

Cakes often signify a time to rejoice at one’s accomplishments or to celebrate new relationships or work efforts that have been successful and have sometimes gone unnoticed by the dreamer, family, friends, or colleagues.
Source: Dream Symbols in The Dream Encyclopedia • Author: James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver

Interpretation 8 — Stephen Girard

To dream that one makes them, signifies joy and profit; that vou will thrive in all vour undertakings. To dream of cakes without cheese, is good; but to dream of both signifies deceit in love.
Source: The Mystic Dream Book • Author: Stephen Girard

Interpretation 9 — Ella Freeman Sharpe

To dream of cakes generally means social or business pleasures such as entertaining.

To dream of a wedding cake, bad luck, in a small way. Pancakes or batter in a dream augur a bonus.

Source: Psycho Dream Interpretation • Author: Ella Freeman Sharpe

Interpretation 10 — Versatile - Anonymous

Material aspects: When we dream of celebration cakes – such as a wedding or birthday cake – we are being shown that there is cause for celebration in our lives.
Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile • Author: Versatile - Anonymous

Interpretation 11 — Versatile - Anonymous

Psychological / emotional perspective: Baking cakes indicates our need to care for others or to nurture an inner need.
Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile • Author: Versatile - Anonymous