breadcrumb vs cake

breadcrumb

noun
  • A tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one made deliberately by crumbling bread. 

  • A single link in a chain indicating the hierarchical location of a directory, web page or similar, used as a navigation aid. 

  • One in a series of clues leading to a person or place. 

verb
  • To add navigational breadcrumbs to (a web page or user interface). 

  • To use clues or enticements to lead someone in the desired direction. 

  • To sprinkle breadcrumbs on to food, normally before cooking. 

cake

noun
  • A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough. 

  • A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump. 

  • Money. 

  • A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing. 

  • A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake. 

  • A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse. 

  • A block of any of various dense materials. 

  • A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake. 

  • Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too. 

verb
  • Coat (something) with a crust of solid material. 

  • Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard. 

  • To form into a cake, or mass. 

How often have the words breadcrumb and cake occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )