A short Article on Cake Baking

Cake is a form of sweet dessert that is typically baked. In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of breads, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate, and that share features with other desserts such as pasteries, meringues, custards, and pies.

Typical cake ingredients are flour, sugar, eggs,butter, or margarine  and leavening agents, such as baking soda or baking powder. common additional ingredients and flavourings include nutmeg, cinnamon or fresh fruit, nuts, cocoa, and extract such as vanilla, with numerous substitutions for the primary ingredients. Cakes can also be filled with fruit preserves, nuts or dessert sauces (like pastry cream), iced with buttercream,whipped cream icing or other icings.

Cake is often served as a celebratory dish on ceremonial occasions, such as weddings, anniversary, baby shower, bridal shower,and birthdays. There are countless cake recipes; some are bread-like, some are rich and elaborate, and many are centuries old. Cake making is no longer a complicated procedure; while at one time considerable labor went into cake making (particularly the whisking of egg foams), baking equipment and directions have been simplified so that even the most amateur cook may bake a cake.

The following are the majar tools and equipment in making cakes:

Electric mixer, measuring scale and cups and spoons, Oven, Bowls, cake pans, cake cases and mould,whisk,pizza cutter, rolling pins, palette knife,serated bread knife,a working table, piping set,revolving stand.