Cake Ingredients
This ingredient provides structure to the cake and contains gluten.
What is Flour
This ingredient coats gluten strands, making the cake soft and tender.
What is Fat
This method involves creaming butter and sugar together to create a light texture.
What is the creaming method?
A cake that is too dense may have had too much of this ingredient.
What is fat?
This is the main reason cakes rise and become fluffy.
What is leavening?
This ingredient adds sweetness and helps retain moisture.
What is Sugar
This ingredient enhances the taste and aroma of the cake.
What is flavouring
All ingredients are mixed at once in this quick method.
What is the all-in-one method?
A cake that sinks in the middle may be caused by opening this too soon.
What is the oven door?
This ingredient helps cakes brown during baking.
What is sugar?
Eggs contribute to these three aspects of a cake. Hint (Three things)
What are structure, color, and flavor?
This ingredient strengthens gluten structure and balances flavors.
What is Salt
Fat is rubbed into flour before adding liquid in this method.
What is the rubbing method?
Overmixing the batter can lead to this issue in texture.
What is toughness?
A cake baked at too high a temperature may develop this problem.
What is a cracked top?
This ingredient acts as an emulsifier and helps bind other ingredients together.
What are eggs
What role does liquid play in cake making?
What is hydrating ingredients and aiding leavening
In this method, fat and sugar are melted before adding them to dry ingredients.
What is the melting method?
A dry cake may be caused by too little of this ingredient.
What is Liquid
The term for the process of mixing air into cake batter to make it light.
What is Aeration
Name two leavening agents used in cake making.
What are baking powder and baking soda?
Why is sugar important besides sweetness?
What is moisture retention, tenderizing, and browning?
Eggs and sugar are whisked together to incorporate air in this method.
What is the whisking method?
Uneven rising may be due to this common baking mistake.
What is improper oven temperature?
This cake-making method is commonly used for making sponge cakes.
What is the whisking method?