BAKING

The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread. Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little farinaceous matter.

That bakes. | Of a person, an object, or the weather: very hot; boiling, broiling, roasting.

An action in which something is baked. | The way in which something is baked. | The production of a batch of baked product.

present participle and gerund of bake.