We're down to the final posts for Caker Cooking and if you take anything away from this blog, I hope it’s this: cakers love balls. I...

Let the caker record state: I can’t get with Tootsie Rolls. It’s not that I won’t eat them (they have sugar, after all), but I’ve never b...

Here we are – the second recipe of the second week of Reader Recipe Month! Those who make it to the end get a free bottle of Pepto Bismol....

While cakers are good at many things ( latch hooking being one of them), we aren’t good at one very important thing: naming our food. I ...

I live next to a senior’s residence and every morning, an old woman wearing wraparound sunglasses and a baseball hat dumps stale bread in t...

As far as I’m concerned, cakers toss the word “cake” around too loosely. Too many times, I see something referred to as a “cake” when it ...

The other day, as I was lying on my back, trying to do up the zipper of my Sergio Valente jeans with a coat hanger, I wondered,...

Most of the recipes in my cookbooks have a name (usually, a woman’s) attached to them. I don’t include the names because I’m sure the la...

Aren’t Pot of Gold chocolates stressful? There you are on Christmas morning and someone passes you the box and you have to examine the l...

Welcome to my month-long Caker Christmas Extravaganza! Throughout December, I'm posting weekly thricely. Wait. Does that make sense? ...

There are times we hope no one will see us. We may be picking our nose at a red light. Or wearing those jogging pants with the questionabl...

It’s a fact: my mom was addicted to Shreddies. There wasn’t a morning in the ‘80s or early ‘90s that you wouldn’t find her sitting at the...

Isn’t August bittersweet? On the one hand, it’s the end of summer. But on the other, it’s also carny season. No, not that Carnie . I’m tal...

It's week three of Unfortunately Named Caker Recipes and I can hardly stand the excitement. This week’s recipe doesn’t have the same v...

Ever since whatshisname with the wig and wooden false teeth chopped down his cherry tree, cakers have had a love affair with cherries, es...

Elderly cakers love dates. Maybe it’s because dates are high in fibre. Or the chewiness helps seniors exercise their jaw muscles. But I t...

Some of you may remember my sister Sue and her Sue’s Tuna Burgers™ . My sister is a gold mine for caker recipes, including o...

Maybe I’m out of step with the times, but it seems like the idea of having company over is becoming a thing of the past. When was the last t...

There’s no point denying it – cakers love booze. Especially around the holiday season. In fact, a recent industry report revealed the to...

Recently, I was accosted  approached by a stranger at an event. Usually it’s Security, but this time, it was a Caker Cooking reader named...