What is the difference between pastry and bakery products?

Pastry is made from flour a little water and butter/shortening oil and somtimes sugar. It is primary used to encase sweet or savoury foods. Sometimes pastrty can stand alone like choclate fantasy.

A cake is a stand alone dessert which along with butter/shortening oil and flour also contains a mild raising agents eggs and some form of liquid usually milk cake are usually turned out to cool before being iced, frosted or decorated.

They are always sweet food. Generally cakes have a spongy and slightly moist feel and should bounced back when pressed firmly but not hard. For example Carrot cake and Black forest gateux.