baked good

noun

: a food (such as a bread, cake, or cookie) made from a dough or batter that is baked
usually plural
After she'd sold baked goods at the farmers' market for a few years, the city approached her and asked if she'd like to open a brick-and-mortar bakery downtown …Christopher Leonard

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Christiansen’s TikTok account essentially transformed into a love letter to the chocolatey baked good available to athletes in the Olympic village. Alex Ritman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2024 Last year, the cake auction smashed fundraising records with a $50,000 winning bid for the reserve grand champion baked good — a chocolate cake with peanut butter icing baked by Addison Fritz of Westminster. Lizzy Alspach, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2024 The Carroll County 4-H and FFA Fair cake auction smashed fundraising records again this year with a $50,000 bid for the reserve grand champion baked good — a chocolate cake with peanut butter icing baked by 10-year-old Addison Fritz of Westminster. Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2023 Treats The smell of warm pumpkin, cinnamon, and sugar wafting throughout the entire house is hard to beat—so why wait until October to indulge in your favorite fall baked good? Halee Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2023 See all Example Sentences for baked good 

Word History

First Known Use

1865, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of baked good was in 1865

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“Baked good.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baked%20good. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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