Decorative Cakes

Decorative Cakes

1. Types of Cakes

   • Victoria sponge
   • Polenta
   • Loaf
   • Fruit cake
   • Battenburg
   • Roulade
   • Angel Cake
   • Brownie
   • Spice cake

2. Ingredients Used

   • Butter
     • Gives colour
     • Flavour
     • Holds air bubbles from mixing or the raisng agent
   • Margerine
   • Self-raising flour
     • Forms the main structure of cake.
   • Egg
     • Adds colour and flavour to all cakes
     • Egg protein-albumen holds air when whisked into a foam-used as raising agent
   • Buttercream
   • Cocco Powder
   • Sugar
     • Sweetens mixture
   • Liquid

3. Methods of cake making

   • Fat+sugar creamed together. Egg beaten in gradually, fold in flour
   • Whisk eggs and sugar, fold in flour
   • fat rubbed into flour, add additional ingredients, bind together with liquid
   • melt fat, treacle syrup, sugar. Stir into rest of dreid ingredients and then add milk/egg