Cake generally refers to cake-like food, which is made of firewood and is oblate. The main ingredients are corn flour, millet flour or mixed flour, which is the daily necessities of northern agricultural workers.

Ciba, also called oil Ciba, is a special flavor food in Shanxi and Shaanxi. The cake is round as a whole, with a diameter of about 15 cm, a thickness of about 2 cm and a weight of about 4 Liang.

Take wheat flour, press on straw and flour, and bake in a shallow pot with slow fire. The appearance is yellow, crisp and delicious, and it is easy to carry.

Cake is a traditional pasta snack in people's daily life.

Pastry can be divided into many kinds, such as pancakes, chopped green onion cakes, pies, thousand-layer cakes and stone cakes (the characteristic cakes of Yicheng, Shanxi).