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.
To mix cake batter?
in a bakery
me, yesterday.
1987
in cake town
a simple vanilla sponge cake by the British
when somebody used nuclear fusion to combine a cookie and a cake
antoin careme
jiffymix
The cupcake was invented in the 19th century as a way to make a smaller cake.
Pound cake dates back to the mid 17th century in Britain and Europe. Nobody is positive who exactly invented it.
george carwardine