Clap along to this famous English Nursery Rhyme, Pat-A-Cake Pat-A-Cake Baker's Man. The earliest known printed version of the rhyme appeared in 1698 in ‘Mother Goose’s Melody’.Nursery rhymes offer numerous developmental benefits for young children from language and literacy skills to cognitive and social, emotional development. Repetition of these short little rhymes has big impacts on our little ones so no wonder they have stood the test of time.