Cayke

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Cayke , or Cayke the Cookie Cook as she is also called, is a character in L. Frank Baum's fictional Land of Oz. Cayke in appears in the book The Lost Princess of Oz (1917). She is a Yip noted for the delicious cookies she bakes in her diamond-studded gold dishpan. Cayke knows that the dishpan has magic powers as she admits to the Frogman (Oz character) that without it she is a poor cook and her cookies are, "pretty poor stuff and no better than any woman could make who does not own [her] diamond-studded gold dishpan." However, she has no idea that as a Magic Dishpan it can carry its occupants to anywhere they may desire to go. Ugu the shoemaker steals Cayke's dishpan and uses it to kidnap Ozma and steal all the magic in the Land of Oz.

When Cayke discovers her dishpan has gone missing, she is greatly distressed and causes quite a fuss by wailing and screaming. After the Frogman, who is thought to be extremely wise by all of the Yips, tells her that the dishpan has been stolen by someone outside of the country of the Yips, she leaves the tabletop where the Yips live and travels the general land of Oz to find it. This trip makes her the first Yip to leave the tabletop. Though the Frogman joins her, she was prepared to go alone which shows she is brave and determined. Cayke is a relatively simple woman, but she is honest except with the truth will hurt someone's feelings and seems to be generally good natured, if a little ill-tempered at times.

According to Cayke, before it belonged to her, the diamond-studded gold dishpan belonged to her mother and all of her grandmothers since the beginning of time, but where they got it is never discussed. It is not even certain if the dishpan was always magical or if that was a side effect brought about by Oz being turned into a fairyland.