Like most items in cookery, something resembling a cake has been produced for hundreds, if not thousands of years. In those days, records of such things were not kept, so an exact year is meaningless.
1508
To mix cake batter?
in a bakery
me, yesterday.
in cake town
1987
a simple vanilla sponge cake by the British
jiffymix
antoin careme
when somebody used nuclear fusion to combine a cookie and a cake
The cupcake was invented in the 19th century as a way to make a smaller cake.
nicholas crabington
george carwardine