Description and usage
Sacred cakes were special baked items made of bread dough and offered as part of pagan worship to an idol representing a god or goddess.
Translation
The “queen of heaven” for whom the sacred cakes are baked in JER 7:18 and JER 44:19 was identified with the planet Venus, and her symbol was an eight-pointed star. Cakes made for her were probably in the shape of her image or of a star. In JER 44:19CEV uses a good descriptive phrase for “sacred cakes” which can serve as a model: “special loaves of bread shaped like her [the Queen of Heaven].”