cake up

verb2

1. •
   To form (something) or for (something) to be formed into cakes (a block of any of various dense materials).

   • He caked up the dirt.
   • The concrete then cakes up through natural processes.
2. •
   To cake entirely (of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard).

   • All the blood had caked up.
   • An hour of drying out caked up the blood puddle.