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Do You Have the Proper Ingredients to be an Extraordinary Cakemaker? Does this sound familiar to you? … who is there on this earth doesn’t like devouring desserts and cakes, cookies and biscuits, or the aroma of recently baked bread floating out from your kitchen? For myself, I do not have the proper ingredients which cake bakers possess therefore I rely greatly on good advice and excellent recipe books. As baking is a precise science it's essential to weigh the ingredients correctly and to keep to the recipe precisely too. Once you have developed the knack of baking a few things successfully, it's at this moment that you might move away from the recipe and start adapting them more to your own tastes. On the subject of cooking you will discover that baking powder and bicarbonate of soda are very handy ingredients to always have to hand. They often appear in a lot of cakes and desserts recipes because they are chemical raising agents. They give muffins, scones, sponges and some biscuits their light consistency and baking powder enables you to maintain more control when baking cakes. The kind of sugar you use to bake desserts and cakes and the like can affect the outcome: granulated sugar has a coarser crystalline structure and as a result traps most air, caster sugar produces more even-sized pockets of air and icing sugar creates a flat but very fine cake. It is possible to use soft, brown, unrefined sugar for cooking as it produces a taste and a texture which is unique. Adding baking powder to plain flour separately, in contrast to just using self raising flour, allows you more control. You don't need too much raising agent in a rich fruit cake, for example. Heat causes sodium bicarbonate to act as a raising agent by releasing carbon dioxide during cooking. The production of carbon dioxide starts at temperatures greater than 80 °C. Because the reaction does not occur at room temperature, mixtures, like cake batter could be permitted to stand without rising until they’re heated in the oven. If baking choux pastry it is necessary to use a greased tin never baking parchment or greased glass because the eclairs could get stuck. Furthermore when the tray is greased put a drop of water on it and swirl it around before you pipe the pastry out to ensure that you make more steam, that will assist in making the choux pastry rise more.

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Page 1: Do You Have the Right Ingredients to be an Amazing Cakemaker?

Do You Have the Proper Ingredients to be an Extraordinary Cakemaker?

Does this sound familiar to you? … who is there on this earth doesn’t like devouring desserts and

cakes, cookies and biscuits, or the aroma of recently baked bread floating out from your kitchen?

For myself, I do not have the proper ingredients which cake bakers possess therefore I rely greatly

on good advice and excellent recipe books.

As baking is a precise science it's essential to weigh the ingredients correctly and to keep to the

recipe precisely too. Once you have developed the knack of baking a few things successfully, it's

at this moment that you might move away from the recipe and start adapting them more to your

own tastes.

On the subject of cooking you will discover that baking powder and bicarbonate of soda are very

handy ingredients to always have to hand. They often appear in a lot of cakes and desserts

recipes because they are chemical raising agents. They give muffins, scones, sponges and some

biscuits their light consistency and baking powder enables you to maintain more control when

baking cakes.

The kind of sugar you use to bake desserts and cakes and the like can affect the outcome:

granulated sugar has a coarser crystalline structure and as a result traps most air, caster sugar

produces more even-sized pockets of air and icing sugar creates a flat but very fine cake. It is

possible to use soft, brown, unrefined sugar for cooking as it produces a taste and a texture which

is unique.

Adding baking powder to plain flour separately, in contrast to just using self raising flour, allows

you more control. You don't need too much raising agent in a rich fruit cake, for example.

Heat causes sodium bicarbonate to act as a raising agent by releasing carbon dioxide during

cooking. The production of carbon dioxide starts at temperatures greater than 80 °C. Because the

reaction does not occur at room temperature, mixtures, like cake batter could be permitted to

stand without rising until they’re heated in the oven.

If baking choux pastry it is necessary to use a greased tin never baking parchment or greased

glass because the eclairs could get stuck. Furthermore when the tray is greased put a drop of

water on it and swirl it around before you pipe the pastry out to ensure that you make more steam,

that will assist in making the choux pastry rise more.

Page 2: Do You Have the Right Ingredients to be an Amazing Cakemaker?

Countless books on desserts and cakes can frequently impart handy suggestions when baking

such as using baking parchment to line your tins. This is a non-stick paper which prevents

mixtures sticking to the tin while cooking. This mustn't be confused with greaseproof paper, which

doesn't have non-stick properties.

What if, after all that trouble and energy you put into baking the perfect sponge cake you can’t get

it out of the tin. Well, to be able to take out your beautifully baked cake from your tin simply run a

palette or rounded butter knife round the inside edge of the cake tin and with care turn the cake

out onto a cooling rack.

To remove the cakes without leaving a wire rack mark on the top, position a clean tea towel over

the tin, put your hand onto the tea towel and flip the tin upside down. The cake will then come out

onto your hand and the tea towel, then detach the greaseproof paper and move it from your hand

to the cooling rack.

There are many cooking books available so that you could learn to bake and cook like celebrity

chefs. If you’ve always wanted to bake perfect cakes, it’s time to stop thinking and begin

experimenting! After all, every practiced cake-baker must begin somewhere.