Baking Basics & Ingredients
This common leavening agent requires an acid, such as buttermilk or yogurt, to activate.
What is baking soda?
This popular tool, often a turntable, is used to rotate a cake while being decorated.
What is a lazy Susan/turntable?
This method, where dough is folded over itself, is used to incorporate butter into croissants.
What is lamination?
This tool is used to cut butter into flour when making flaky pie dough.
What is a pastry blender?
This famous fictional character is used for advertising baking products.
Who is Betty Crocker?
This protein, formed when flour mixes with liquid, gives bread its structure and elasticity.
What is gluten?
This French term refers to the cream-filled pastry made from pâté à choux.
What is an éclair?
This is the process of letting dough rise for the final time before baking.
What is proofing?
This type of custard pie is known for its smooth texture and often uses nutmeg.
What is custard pie?
This temperature is the most common setting for baking cookies and cakes
What is 350∘F?
This type of flour, which is lowest in protein, is best for making tender cakes.
What is cake flour?
This type of icing is made by boiling sugar and corn syrup together, resulting in a smooth, moldable texture.
What is fondant?
This type of bread, which originated in the Middle East, is baked directly on the oven bottom.
What is flatbread?
This term refers to baking a pie crust before adding the filling.
What is blind baking?
This is the name for the substance added to granulated sugar to create brown sugar.
What is molasses?
This process of mixing fat and sugar together aerates the dough, essential for cookies.
What is creaming?
This type of cake relies solely on whipped egg whites for leavening, rather than baking powder.
What is Angel Food Cake?
this is the name for the slits cut into the top of bread dough before baking
what is scoring?
These are the two main ingredients in a basic meringue.
What are egg whites and sugar?
This is the term for a person or company that makes confectioneries from chocolate.
What is a chocolatier?
These are the two proteins found in hard wheat that form gluten.
What are glutenin and gliadin?
This type of meringue contains nut flour, often used in macarons
What is Japonaise?
This is the most common ingredient used to make sourdough bread rise.
What is wild yeast (or sourdough starter)?
This Italian term describes a "twice-baked" cookie.
What is biscotti?
This is the temperature (in Fahrenheit) at which water boils, often important for sugar work.
What is 212∘?