baked good

noun

: a food (such as a bread, cake, or cookie) made from a dough or batter that is baked

—usually plural

After she'd sold baked goods at the farmers' market for a few years, the city approached her and asked if she'd like to open a brick-and-mortar bakery downtown …

—Christopher Leonard

Examples of baked good in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Another menu item that’s making a comeback is Scratch KC baked goods, like their popular homemade Pop-Tarts, cookies and muffins. — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026

Make two or three types of sandwiches (crusts trimmed, cut into triangles), one handheld baked good, and keep the tea flowing. — Emma Laperruque, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 July 2026

Across the South, small-batch baking businesses are quietly transforming the market one baked good at a time. — Natalie Hoy, Southern Living, 7 June 2026

That can result in dry pockets of flour in the finished baked good and, in the case of creaming butter and sugar, flat or greasy cakes or cookies. — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1865, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for baked good

• adulthood
• babyhood
• brotherhood
• cottonwood
• fatherhood
• firewood
• fuelwood
• hardihood
• ironwood
• leatherwood
• likelihood
• livelihood