cake vs cookie

cake and cookie both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cake	Yes	No	Yes	No
cookie	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cookie is a hyponym of cake; that is, cookie is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cake:

cake: baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat
cookie: any of various small flat sweet cakes

cake (noun)	cookie (noun)
a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)	a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site
baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat	any of various small flat sweet cakes
small flat mass of chopped or ground food	the cook on a ranch or at a camp

cake (verb)	cookie (verb)
form a coat over