What is the origin of cake?

Cake is an ancient pastry known as Cake in England, Gateau in France , and Torte in Germany, Austria and other countries. Cakes are usually sweet and are usually made by an oven, Cakes are made with eggs, sugar, wheat flour as the main ingredients. Milk, juice, milk powder, spices, salad oil, water, shortening, baking powder as auxiliary ingredients, after mixing, modulation, baking to make a kind of sponge like sweetheart. The earliest cakes were made with a few simple ingredients, and these were symbols of ancient religious myths and miraculous superstitions. Early trade routes led to the importation of exotic spices from the Far East to the North, nuts, floral essences, citrus fruits, dates and figs from the Middle East, and sugarcane from the East and the South. In the Dark Ages of Europe, these exotic ingredients were only available to the monks and nobility, whose pastry creations consisted of things like honeyed gingerbread and flat, hard cookies. Slowly, as trade became more frequent, the eating habits of the West changed radically. Soldiers and Arab traders returning home from the Crusades spread the use of spices and Middle Eastern recipes. In several of the major commercial towns of central Europe, guilds of bakers were organized. And by the end of the Middle Ages, spices were widely used by wealthy families across Europe, enhancing imaginative pastry baking techniques. When nuts and sugar became popular, so did marzipan, which was baked in wood-carved letterpress molds with designs associated with religious admonitions. Cakes first originated in the West and were slowly introduced to China.