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Cakes

Questions about how to bake and decorate the popular dessert and birthday treat, cake.

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Why is your pound cake dry and crumbly on top?

This will happen if there was not enough moisture in the cake or if you over-baked it.

What culture baked the first known cake?

The first cakes bore a strong similarity to bread. The Romans sometimes added egg or butter, and sweetened the dough with honey, sometimes including nuts or dried fruit. Roman and Greek history records cake-making but according to food historians it's the early Egyptians who were the first skilled bakers. It is kind of hard to determine what the first cake ever was due to back in the day there were many skilled people with wide imaginations, so anybody can say that they made the first cake ever. It is hard to tell!

What are kitchen equipment?

Kitchen drawers contain knives, forks, spoons, can openers, mixers, measuring cups & spoons, storage containers, plates, cups, glasses, spatulas, wooden stiring spoons, and whatever else you want to store there.

What are all the reasons that eggs are used in baking?

I'm going to answer this assuming you mean regular chicken eggs. The four types of eggs used in baking are whole eggs, egg yolks, egg whites, and meringue. Meringue is simply egg whites which have been beaten until they are light and fluffy, and hold a stiff peak. This is commonly done with many cake recipes to increase the volume and lightness of the cake.

Why cake is important?

well its a tradition for them to have a cake as its a symbol of cutting it together in symbol of marriage

Can you put cupcakes in a pan to cook without using Paper tins?

You probably will need to grease, butter & flour, or spray the pan with non-stick cooking spray if you do not use the paper tins. Otherwise, the cupcakes are much more likely to stick or to burn.

Where does chocalte come from?

Chocolate is a prodcut that is made when cocoa powder (from a cacao bean / tree) is added with milk, sugar, eggs, cream, or fats.

Why does your cake shrink after you take it out of the oven?

If you take a pound cake out of the oven before it is cooked completely it will fall apart because the inside will not be set.

How long do you cook tiny cup cakes?

it depends on what kind of oven you have, if you have a really good oven, it generally takes about 30 seconds, but if you have a bad one it takes 24 hours

How much birthday cake does a person eat in a year?

9 is predicted average per group of 1000 families including the types having no cake to eat and families eatting 209 cakes per year

Answer:

An average person likely eats 1 to 4 pieces of his or her own birthday cake, over over a period of days beginning on the actual birth date and extending into the next week. Most cakes begin to dry by then, or people frankly tire of the taste.

How much cake a person eats each year beyond that basic estimate would vary depending on:

  • whether the person has family and whether family members celebrate with birthday cake;
  • how many friends the person knows/has;
  • many other people want a present and so, they invite the person to a birthday party;
  • how often the person is present at an office party for someone else's birthday;
  • how often the person gets persuaded to be a "guest of a guest" at someone else's birthday;
  • how often the person plans, arranges, and holds a party for someone else's birthday;
  • whether the person ever eats cake or thinks it is too sweet.

If a person had twelve (12) friends and each friend celebrated a birthday during each month (12) and the person only ate two (2) pieces of cake at the parties, and only ate 2 pieces at their own birthday party, that would be 26 pieces in a year. But that is likely a figure from the high "guess" range.

You must also figure in the size of each "piece". Some people like a "double" as one "piece" so again, the count here may be drastically off.

What is a creative name for chocolate chip cupcakes?

chocolate cream cheese...cream chocolate chips..whatever you want really..

What does fat do to a cake?

Depends on what your eating, most of cake is real fattening though.

Can oven door be opened during baking a cake?

No you can not leave the oven door open when you are baking a cake because the cake batter uses the heat to rise and bake according to an accurate baking time and temperature. If you have the oven door open, you are allowing the heat to escape the oven causing inappropriate baking temperature and time.

For example:

If I am baking a cake that requires 20 minutes under 375 Fahrenheit degree. Leaving the oven open will cause the temperature to by an inaccurate 375 Fahrenheit degree causing the need to extend the regular 20 minute baking time because the batter wouldn't be fully baked.

However, you can open the door to test the cake for doneness or other quick procedures. Just be gentle. Some types of cakes may fall if disturbed.

How long to cool cake?

If you're defrosting it, I would say more than an hour. If you just baked a cake and its hot, I would wait about thirty minutes to an hour before eating it.

I'd also say putting it in the refrigerator for 5mins.

How long do you bake a cake in a microwave oven?

A cake, made from a batter, should not really be done in a microwave. The length of cooking along with the heat (oven) vs. microwaves is not right, and it won't turn out quite right. For re-heatable cakes (usually smaller or single serving sized) that are meant for the microwave, follow the instructions on the package. Usually it is anywhere from 2 to 10 minutes or so.

There are 24 cupcakes three fourths are frosted how many are frosted?

Three fourths of 25 is equal to 18 and three fourths. If three fourths of the cupcakes are frosted that means that 18 cupcakes are fully frosted and the 19th is three fourths of the way frosted.

What colors to mix to get emerald cake icing?

If you are looking for a causation sort of colour, here's what to do.

I will assume you are working with the standard grocery store liquid colourants.

Start with a very light orange, 1 drop red, 1 drop yellow and mix well. This is most likely going to be way too pale, but as you can add colour but not remove it and you have not given me any idea how big a batch of icing you are working on... better safe than sorry. Next add 1 drop green (yeah, I know, sounds weird, I swear it works), mix well.

Then one drop at a time add red and if needed a bit more yellow. Mix thoroughly after each drop, remember it will dry down a bit darker so keep it pale.

For a darker skin tone use red yellow and blue in equal amounts (1 -2 drops each) to start. Mix well. Adjust by eye with red and yellow until you reach the desired colour.

Remember mix the icing very well after each drop of colour, it is time consuming, but saves you making too many mistakes.

How do you list the seven basic ingredients of a shortened cake other than pound cake and briefly describe a major function of each?

Write vour answers using complete sentences hen appropriat 3. List the seven basic ingredients of a shortened cake (other than pound cake) and briefly describe a major function of each. What would happen if a cake were made with too much fat? 5. Why do baking pans need to be the correct size when baking a cake? 6. What are the two most common mixing methods for making shortened cakes? 7. How do pound cakes differ from other shortened cakes? 8. How is an unshortened cake handled when it is removed from the oven?

How many eggs to use in 3 boxes cake mix?

I know this sounds crazy .... look on the back of the box and triple it.

Where can you do cupcake decorating?

you can decorate cupcakes in your home kitchen, in a bakery and at a Friends house or grandpa and Nana's house.

What object weighs 10 pounds?

Some foods that weigh ten pounds are a sack of potatoes or sugar or flour. Some items could be a blender, a lamp, or a small toaster oven.

Where can one get pictures for the top of a birthday cake?

you need a special printer which prints with food coloring instead of ink and sugar paper instead of normal printer paper :)