What cooking method makes a bread and not cake?

The key difference between bread and cake isn't the cooking method, but the ingredients and their proportions.

Here's why:

* Bread: Relies on yeast for leavening, which produces carbon dioxide bubbles that make the dough rise. Bread usually has a high proportion of flour and low amounts of sugar and fat.

* Cake: Leans on chemical leaveners like baking powder or baking soda. Cakes have higher sugar and fat content than bread, resulting in a denser, sweeter texture.

Both bread and cakes are usually baked in an oven. While there are variations like deep-fried bread, the fundamental difference remains the ingredients and their role in the final product.

So, while you can bake both bread and cake in an oven, the ingredients and their proportions determine whether the final result is a fluffy loaf of bread or a delicious, moist cake.