English typically uses a strict SUBJECT VERB OBJECT ... In a sentence that begins with a VERB-ing form, a sentence can reflect a VOSVO word order: Finishing (V) the book (O), the student (S) completed ...
My preference is that you stop baking and go outside. Here are some further examples of adding suffixes -ed and -ing to words ending in 'fer'. Notice how the letter 'r' is doubled in the new word.