Using cake or cakes?

[Heidi]

Do you like cakes ? / Do you like cake?
How do you make cakes? / How do you make cake?

Which ones are more common to use, please?

[Copy-editor]

Hello,

Both are good. 'Do you like cakes?' suggests that there are a variety of cakes, perhaps on offer... hmm. Chocolate cake, fruit cake, Battenburg cake. What a tasty question.

'Do you like cake?' asks if you like the foodstuff, cake. Any cake.
'No, I can't stand the horrible, spongy stuff!'
'But surely you like chocolate cake?'
'No.'
'Not even strawberry cake?'
'No. I told you. I don't like cake.'

I like all cakes except those with icing on.
I like cake in general.

[Not a teacher anymore]