Cakes are often connected with fun, happiness, excitement and celebration. Cakes have been a part of many traditions all over the world synchronizing festivities. A variety of styles and themes are used in association to cakes, depending on the particular celebration, there are many different occasions such as birthdays, Mother’s day, Father’s day, 4Th of July festivities, baby showers and weddings. Cakes are decorated with flowers, flags and cartoon characters to place cakes. An assortment of flavors such as vanilla the most easiest to please, carrots cakes, fruit & lemon cakes, marble cakes, chocolate cakes; there are whimsical cakes, small cakes, large cakes, individual cakes called cake pops, and my favorite, Gourmet cupcakes. Cupcakes have been more frequently used these days. They are easily consumed with less of a mess to clean later. Cupcakes are affordable, east to make and deemed efficient in terms of price to quantity of people attending the celebration. They are typically decorated or frosted with sugar icing, fondant, and butter cream. With busy lifestyle both me and my children, the box mix is easiest and quickest.
The first and most important step is to select the flavor of cake in consideration of the individual you are baking for. Is it a family? A friend? Co-worker? Do they have allergies to any specific flavoring? Once you decide, you must select a cake box mix and acquire a tub of premade frosting from the grocery store. (I picked a yellow cake mix box
Student name:WenJieGUO Student code:GEC000009P Unit code and name:VU21389 Design and review a project Task1 1.Make sweets cakes sell them. 2.Sweets strawberry cake 3.-buying the ingredients/materials -making the product -selling the product -doing advetisement 4.Next week 5. -buying the ingredients one day -making the product one day -selling the product one week
The second part is where the fun part actually starts, you’re going to add one or two heaping spoonfuls of regular white frosting to the crumbled up cake you have.
Baked Alaska Baked Alaska consists of a cake topped with ice cream and then covered in meringue and baked for 3 minutes. The French made the first Baked Alaska. Lemon Baked Alaska Ingredients 3 eggs 150 g castor sugar 5 ml lemon extract Zest from 1 lemon 125 ml milk 60 g butter 150 g flour 7 ml baking powder 2 ml salt Method Beat the eggs and sugar together until light and fluffy.
There are a number of flavors available including Mint Chip, Chocolate Mocha Chip, Birthday Cake, Lemon Cake, Vanilla Bean, Strawberry, and Chocolate. The only place I was able to find all of the flavors was Whole Foods. My local Fred Meyer
There are several effects that influence under and over mixing a shortened cake batter. For instance, the "four common methods of mixing cakes are the conventional method, conventional sponge method, muffin method, and quick-mix method. The amount of mixing needed for a high-quality cake varies with the ingredient proportions and the batter quantity. Undermixed cakes may yield a cake of good volume, but the texture is coarse and the cell walls thick. Overmixing tends to produce a compact cake of smaller volume which may have tunnels or become heavy or soggy" (Scheule, M.B.A. B.,2013). I personally, find this information being very interesting because for the most part my cakes have always lacked volume
This is a more appetizing and light version of the fruit cake filled with sugary
The cake is named for the three kings who visited the Christ child. Over 300 years ago, the cake started out as a dry French bread type of dough with sugar on top and a bean inside. Now king cakes come in the sweet brioche dough variety and also donuts filled with several fillings, and a small plastic baby to represent baby Jesus. Tradition has it that whoever finds the baby in the cake, is responsible for purchasing the next year’s cake. • Beginning in the 18th century
After all the ingredients are measured, preheat the oven to 375° F. Next, get a 15 x 10-inch jelly-roll pan, grease it well and line it with wax paper. The wax paper must be greased and have flour to ensure the cake does not stick to the paper. Moreover you will need a thin, moist cotton kitchen towel sprinkled with a layer of powdered sugar.
Your peers and elders have had experience so they can assist you when you are making unerring choices. When I first began baking, I made triple chocolate brownies. I did not have much knowledge of baking. My mom, who has baked many times in her life, suggested that following a recipe is necessary to produce a pleasant outcome. She provided me with this segment of advice because she has an understanding of what can happen if I decide to measure accurately.
Mardi Gras is a big deal mainly because Louisiana is the only state that celebrates it. As always, there is a famous dish that comes along with this holiday and it is King Cake. King Cake is a dessert that is made up of bread, filling, and colorful icing. King Cake was created in the mid-1800s and was made to celebrate the 12th night after Christmas. This dessert represents the coming of the three kings or three wise men (Dave). There are many simple steps to creating a King Cake. After creating the strips of dough for the King Cake, some braids then bakes the strips together which creates the unique look to the dessert. Some people may wonder what makes this thick piece of bread a dessert. Well, after the dough bakes into its unique form, someone splatters icing all over the cake and covers the dough in Mardi Gras colored sprinkles (purple, green and gold). Sometimes King Cakes will be made with different kinds of filling such as, cream cheese, strawberry, apple, or other types. The Mardi Gras colored sprinkles that are on King Cakes symbolize powerful words. Purple stands for justice, green stands for faith, and gold stands for power. The meanings of the colors were created in 1892 during the Rex Parade (Dave). The world’s largest King Cake was baked in 1998 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and it weighed 350 pounds (Dave). There is a secret ingredient that someone inserts in each King Cake and that is
Do the words Georgetown cupcakes make you salivate in your mouth? If not then you haven’t lived a full cupcake life. It all started on our last night when my aunt told us they had a cupcake shop a street or two down from ben and jerry’s . Little did I know it was the cupcake shop that I have been watching on Netflix for about a year. As we walked into the store we got a heavy smell of something I could only describe as a little piece of heaven. As we made our way through the line the lady asked me what I would like to have and, at that point I wanted to say everything. But the initial flavors that me and my cousin were drawn too were blueberry cheesecake, red velvet, and my favorite chocolate lava. As we each took a bite I could feel a piece of my soul leaving my body. It turned out to be even better than I expected, which now makes Boston my favorite place to
There are other simple products that can be used in conjunction with edible glitter and sprinkles to achieve professional looking results. Pre-made royal icing or gum paste flowers, for example, can be added to the cake with just a touch of butter cream. Royal icing flowers usually come in different colors, but gum paste flowers may need to be painted. There are different edible paints for cake decorating and most are simple to apply. Edible spray paint is very simple and will give the cake a professional touch that can be achieved by most. Using edible paints and luster dust on gum paste flowers can create a beautiful piece for the cake. Also, choosing the appropriate colors for the frosting can customize the cake for any occasion. This can be achieved with gel paste which comes in a rainbow of colors. There are so many ways one could decorate a cake and make it look as if they bought it from a store.
In the YouTube video, “Classic Chocolate Cake (Vegan and Gluten Free)”, the creator Something Vegan demonstrates her recipe of a vegan and gluten-free chocolate cake. The video starts with the finished product of the chocolate cake and then transitions to an empty bowl. She has captions in the video showing what each ingredient is and then shows them being added one by one to the bowl. She starts with the dry ingredients first, adding oat flour, rice flour, brown sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. She then whisks the dry ingredients together and starts to add the liquid ingredients of water, oil, vanilla, and vinegar into the same bowl and mixes it into the dry ingredients. She then pours the batter into two metal pans and then transitions the video, showing the cakes once they are baked. The video once again transitions to another empty bowl which is used to make the frosting. She starts with adding powdered sugar, cocoa, and vegan
Thesis- Finding your favorite pastry can be very hard with so many choices to choose from; however, when examining cookies or cupcakes one notices cookies are far more superior due to their convenience, flavors, and quality.
The sanitation of the premise is good where it is important to make sure the cake is safe to consume by the consumer.