A collection of various community cookbooks and recipe booklets arranged side by side, featuring titles and illustrations related to cooking, community groups, and local organizations.

The best of the worst of mangiacake cuisine.

Do you like casseroles? Is Cream of Mushroom soup a vegetable in your world? Do you consider JELL-O a side dish?

Then Caker Cooking is for you!

Featuring over 250 recipes from more than 60 retro community and church cookbooks, Caker Cooking offers a culinary cornucopia. Some recipes are delicious. And some are…Well, let’s just say the journey is always interesting.

And beige. Very, very beige.

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Popular Recipes

These classics feature the caker holy trinity: tater tots, soda crackers and Rice Krispies.

Baked cheesy tater tots served with ground beef and chopped onions on a white plate.

Tater Tot Casserole

Contains 0% of your recommended daily vitamins. Get the recipe!

Stack of broken chocolate and biscuit-flavored layered candies or treats with a partially visible chocolate bar in the foreground.

Quick & Easy Skor Bars

The best thing you can make with soda crackers. Get the recipe!

Close-up of multiple large marshmallows covered in Rice Krispies cereal.

Rice Krispies Golf Balls

You’ll eat three or “fore” of these, guaranteed. Get the recipe!

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In short, an Anglo-Saxon who cooks with Cheez Whiz, Cream of Mushroom soup and Cool Whip. The word “caker” is a short form of “mangicake,” a term coined by Italians.

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Illustration of Brian Francis surrounded by Caker food

Who am I? My name is Brian Francis, author and eater. I started Caker Cooking in 2011 as a way of celebrating and sharing the processed food I was raised on.

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