Dough

Dough - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

(batsek, meaning "swelling," i.e., in fermentation). The dough the Israelites had prepared for baking was carried away by them out of Egypt in their kneading-troughs (Ex. 12:34, 39). In the process of baking, the dough had to be turned (Hos. 7:8).

Dough - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

DOUGH, n. Do. [G.] Paste of bread; a mass composed of flour or meal moistened and kneaded, but not baked.

My cake is dough, that is, by undertaking has not come to maturity.