cake and gingerbread

cake crumbs

Hardly anything.

cake walk

Something extremely easy.

eat one's cake and have it too

Alternative form of have one's cake and eat it too.

gingerbread

To decorate or embellish in an ornate or intricate way.

gingerbread up

Synonym of gingerbread (“to decorate or embellish in an ornate or intricate way”).

Give and take

[Cockney slang]cake

have one's cake and eat it too

To benefit by having two things which are mutually incompatible (such as eating a piece of cake and yet still possessing that piece for future use).

icing on the cake

A thing which intensifies the appreciation of something already good, or (ironic) the regretting of something already bad.