The “cake” has a long history.<\/p>\n
The ancient Greeks baked using flour mixed with eggs, milk, nuts, and honey. The Greeks invented beer as a leavener, frying fritters in olive oil, and cheesecakes using milk. The Roman named for cake was baked on a pastry base or inside a pastry case. The basic bread dough was sometimes enriched with butter, eggs, and honey, which produced a sweet and cake-like baked good.<\/p>\n
The early cakes in England were bread, the most obvious differences between a “cake” and “bread” were the round, flat shape of the cakes, and the cooking method, which turned cakes over once while cooking, while bread was left upright throughout the baking process.<\/p>\n
Cake is a combination of sweet-food created from flour, sugar, and ingredients, that are usually baked. Previously, cakes were modifications of bread, but now cakes cover a wide range of recipes and preparations that can be simple or complex, and that share features with other desserts such as pies, pastries, ice-creams, meringues, and custards.<\/p>\n
The commonly used ingredients to prepare the cakes, include flour, sugar, butter or oil or margarine, a liquid, eggs (sometimes), and a leavening agent, such as baking soda or baking powder. Common additional ingredients and flavourings include fresh fruit, nuts, cocoa, dried, candied, and extracts such as vanilla.<\/p>\n
Cakes can also be filled with nuts or dessert sauces, iced with buttercream or other icings, fruit preserves, and decorated with candied fruit, marzipan, or piped borders.<\/p>\n
Cake is often served as a celebratory dish on ceremonial occasions, such as weddings, anniversaries, and birthdays.<\/p>\n
Since making the cake is so simple, housewives and other in-home cake makers started expend their creativity and imagination on cake decorating and presenting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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