Chapter 23 Flashcards
What is shortened cake
• Known as butter or conventional cakes are cake made from fat
• Usually leavened with baking powder or baking soda, although steam generated from the liquid ingredients and air incorporated during the mixing process also contribute to leavening.
Examples of Shortened Cake
• Bundt Cake
• Butter Cake
• cupcake Cake
• Cheese Cake
• Mooncake
• Muffin
• Pound Cake
• Ice cream
• Fruit Cake
• Devil Food Cake
• Coffee Cake
• Ciambellone
• German Chocolate Cake
• upside down cake
What is unshortened cake and another name for it
Cake made without fat
• known as sponge or foam cake
• include angel food, sponge, meringue, dacquoise, génoise, and roulade
Examples of Unshortened Cake
• Angel Food Cake
• Boston Cream Pie
• Dacquoise
• Genoise
• Meringue
• Perit Four
• Roulade
• Tiramisu
What is Chiffon Cake
A cake made with fat and an egg white foam that combines the characteristics found in both shortened and unshortened cakes.
What is muffin mix?
- Sift dry ingredients together
- In separate bowl, combine moist ingredients
- Stir together dry and moist ingredients with a few strokes, until dry ingredients are moist but still lumpy
What are the three basic steps in ‘Conventional (Creaming) mix’ method
The most time consuming, the most frequently used for mixing cake ingredients.
- It produces a fine-grained, velvety texture.
- The three basic steps are:
1) Creaming
2) Egg incorporation
3) Alternate addition of the dry and moist ingredients
which additive is used as a humectant?
Glycerin
Humectant (draws moisture to itself to decrease staling)
which pans are best for baking cakes
Dull, rough-surfaced pans are best for baking cakes
• they absorb heat more readily, resulting in the cake baking more quickly and having a larger volume, a finer grain, and a more velvety texture.
The function of cream of tartar for making angel food cake
to strengthens egg white foam, increases tenderness, and whitens color
the differences between cakes and cookies
Cookies refers to “small cakes”
Compared to cakes, in cookies:
- Proportion of water is low
• Proportion of sugar and fat are high
the examples of bar cookies and dropped cookies
Dropped cookies:
• Chocolate chip
• Cialde: Italian anise-flavored cookies
• Florentines: Round, wafer-thin cookies
• Fortune cookies
• Macarons: Two soft, sweet meringue cookies placed together like a sandwich with an inner buttercream or jam filling
• Macaroons: mound-shaped cookies
• Madeleines
• Meringues
• Wafers
Bar cookies: the most fluid of cookie batters
• Brownies: rich chocolate cakes
• Lemon bars: sweet, rich, tart, lemony custard top on a shortbread base
high-altitude adjustments for cakes and cookies
Cakes:
High altitude adjustments:↑water, ↓
leavener, ↓sugar
Cookies:
High altitude adjustments:↓baking powder, ↓sugar,
↑flour
Which type of pan is used for baking bar cookies?
Baking pan
Cake flour is not recommended for making most cookies because it contains
, which reduces cookie spread.
Chlorine
