making bread or cake or pastry etc.
"She spent the afternoon baking a delicious chocolate cake for her friend's birthday."
cooking by dry heat in an oven
"She placed the cookies on a tray to bake until they were golden brown."
An action in which something is baked.
"The delicious aroma of cinnamon filled the kitchen after hours of baking cookies."
In plain English: Baking is the process of cooking food slowly with dry heat inside an oven.
"The baking made my house smell like fresh bread."
present participle of bake.
"The aroma of fresh cookies filled the kitchen as she continued baking all afternoon."
In plain English: Baking is cooking food slowly inside an oven using dry heat to make things like bread and cakes.
"She is baking cookies in the oven for her birthday party."
That bakes.
"The sun's intense rays are baking the desert sand until it glows hot to the touch."
Baking comes from the Middle English word bakynge, which is formed by adding -ing to the verb bake. The term has retained its original meaning of cooking food in an oven since it entered the language.