Bakers Ingredients
This white powdery ingredient provides structure & strength in baking.
What is Flour
These cookies are dropped from a spoon onto a baking sheet
What are dropped cookies?
This quick bread method involves creaming fat with sugar first.
What is the creaming method?
This ingredient helps control yeast fermentation and enhances flavor.
What is salt?
This extract is most commonly used in baking for flavor.
What is vanilla?
A microscopic fungus used as an organic leavener in bread making
What is Yeast
Cookies made by forcing soft dough through a pastry bag.
What are bagged cookies?
In this method, all liquid ingredients are combined and then added to dry ingredients.
What is the muffin method?
These ingredients help determine the consistency of a finished baked product.
What are thickeners?
These spices are frequently used in fall baking
What are cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger?
These chemical leaveners produce carbon dioxide gas when combined with liquid and heat.
What are baking soda and baking powder?
These cookies are created by rolling dough into a log, chilling, and then slicing.
What are icebox cookies?
This method requires cutting solid fat into flour until it resembles pea-sized pieces.
What is the biscuit method?
The process where heat causes sugar to brown.
What is caramelization?
This type of oven provides a gentler baking environment for cookies.
What is a convection oven?
The protein in flour that develops gluten and provides elasticity in yeast breads.
What is gluten?
Cookies made by cutting stiff dough rolled out on a baking bench
What are rolled cookies?
Examples of quick breads include these items.
What are biscuits, muffins, scones, and banana bread?
In baker's percentages, this ingredient is always considered 100%.
What is flour?
These artificial sweeteners do not caramelize when heated.
What are sugar substitutes?
This type of flour has the lowest gluten content and is best for delicate baked goods.
What is cake flour?
These cookies are baked in a pan and then cut into individual squares or rectangles.
What are sheet cookies?
The key principle in all quick bread methods is to mix ingredients until just incorporated to prevent this
What is overmixing?
These physical leaveners involve introducing air or steam into a batter.
What are air, steam, and foams?
This calculation helps bakers standardize recipes across different quantities.
What are baker's percentages?