Cake
The cake is one of the fine pastries. It is a mostly sweet pastries. It differs mainly by the type of manufacturing sheet cakes as well as cakes that are baked in a baking pan. Unlike a cake, a lining or filling is not added after baking, but mitgebacken. The part of the cake is glazed after baking. Savoury cakes are onion, quiche, bacon cakes and quiches.
General
The cake is made according to the recipe of flour, sugar, binders ( eg egg ) and fat ( butter or margarine), a liquid ( milk, water or fruit juice), flavors (eg baking aroma ) and a leavening agent ( baking powder or yeast ), which are mixed together. Important types of dough are yeast dough, short pastry ( Knead dough ) and batter.
Bakeries and pastry shops offer cakes to piecemeal or as a whole. For weddings, birthdays and other occasions they make to order also produces special designs. There are also industrially manufactured finished cakes in supermarkets.
The baking of cake is traditionally widespread in Europe and North America, while on other continents plays only a minor role; in Asia are known almost exclusively rice cakes. In China also the moon cakes have a special meaning.
In Europe, cake is traditionally eaten in the afternoon for coffee and cake or Sunday coffee. Originally, the baking of cakes was one of the tasks of the housewife, while less cake is baked myself today. More often, cake is baked birthday and special occasions.
Various dishes or baked goods that carry the cake concept in the name, like pancakes ( eggs ), and the donuts as donuts, sour cream cake or regionally referred to as strawberry cake strawberry cake, by definition, do not count on the cake. Even the Cold dog or cellar cake that is not baked in the strict sense, but mostly served as a "cake", therefore, is a dessert or sweet, like tiramisu.
History
In ancient Greece was plakous the word for cake and had the same root as the word for flat. In Latin it was placenta, which is still the term for placenta today. In the second century BC Cato described a cake that resembled the modern cheesecake. The Romans used in ancient times already yeast for baking. In the Middle Ages the most common cake was a kind of sweet bread or fruit bread. Fancy cakes came with the distribution of fine sugar on since the 16th century; in this time falls the introduction of sponge cake and chocolate and vanilla as new ingredients in Europe. Not later than the 17th century Early models of the springform pan used for baking. In the 19th century, baking soda and baking powder came on the market.
Known cake
- Apple pie
- Baumkuchen
- Bee Sting
- Butter Cake
- Eierschecke
- English cake
- Gugelhupf
- Yeast
- Blueberry Pie
- Cheesecake
- Cherry Cake
- Marble cake
- Poppy seed cake
- Moos cakes
- Pie
- Panettone
- Petit Gâteau
- Plum tart
- Russian Zupfkuchen
- Sponge cake
- Sponge cake
- Chocolate cake
- Tunnel
- Streusel
- Lemon Cake