Most of the cakeverse I read before have a stronger prey predator vibe than this one. Some of them even stated there are incidents(literal cannibalism) that happened between forks and cakes and in most of them the cakes usually don't know that they are cakes.
Rather than focusing on the romance why don't focused on those incidents instead. Rather than taking cakeverse metaphorically, why don't take it literally. Same with omegaverse where there are stigma that omega are lowly being used for breeding, they must be forks in cakeverse that think cakes as food rather than a human.
I feel a lot of possibilities and stories could stem out from that. This is just some of my intrusive thoughts that I have when reading cakeverse
i love yer mind omg like this is super interesting and i feel like i definitely agree! it could make for a good thriller and hopefully we do get a dark cakeverse story one day i know people will not like it because its usually so fluffy and yes fluff is precious l, but there are sm unexplored elements in cakeverse (some of which you’ve pointed out), and it would be super cool if people explored them even in horror/thriller

I swear cakeverse could become a good thriller genre setting