Integrating your WordPress posts into your CakePHP website is easy.
WebDevKungFu has an excellent post, just follow the step by step instruction.
To this post, I just had to modify a line of code to further filter out what WordPress content (posts and published only) comes out as headlines
From his code, add the following:
$posts = $this->Blog->findAll(array(’post_status’ => ’publish’, 'post_type’ => ’post’),null,’post_date DESC’,3);