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In defence of fatties... Let them eat cake!

Mail Online UK - Found 2 hours ago
Tanya says she likes cake. Got a problem with that? It's not easy being a drain on the national resources and a dinner party talking point.

Posted on November 22, 2008, 2:08 am

ALLERGY ALERT - Undeclared sulphites in SIX FORTUNE brand PAPAYA ...

Canadian Food Inspection Agency - Found 11 hours ago
? The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning people with sensitivity to sulphites not to consume the Six Fortune brand Papaya Cake and
Allergy Alert: Undeclared Sulphites in Six Fortune Brand Papaya Cake ... - Canadian Business Magazine
Allergy Alert: Undeclared Sulphites in Six Fortune Brand Papaya Cake ... - Yahoo! Canada
Allergy Alert: Undeclared Sulphites in Six Fortune Brand Papaya Cake ... - Street Insider
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Posted on November 21, 2008, 4:37 am

Blackberry Wine Cake

WGEM.com - Found 12 hours ago
... cake. Let it sit only 10 minutes then turn out of pan onto wax paper and flip cake over so glazed side is up. 2. I substitute strawberry cake...

Posted on November 21, 2008, 3:38 am

Maison Blanche: How Sweet It Was, Especially the Cake

Washington Post - Found Nov. 20, 2008
And the chocolate mousse cake was the best I had ever eaten. Even better than my Aunt Rhoda's.

Posted on November 20, 2008, 1:45 pm

Lance, Inc. Appointed 'Stalking Horse' Bidder for the Assets of ...

Biz Journals - Found Nov. 18, 2008
Delaware to be the 'stalking horse' bidder for the primary assets of snack food companies Archway Cookies LLC and Mother's Cake and Cookie Co.
Lance, Inc. Appointed 'Stalking Horse' Bidder for the Assets of ... - Forbes.com
Lance, Inc. Appointed 'Stalking Horse' Bidder for the Assets of ... - Breitbart.com
Lance, Inc. Appointed 'Stalking Horse' Bidder for the Assets of ... - TickerTech.com
Lance, Inc. Appointed 'Stalking Horse' Bidder for the Assets of ... - Street Insider
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Posted on November 18, 2008, 3:12 am

Bhaiyya cake lands Raj in trouble

Mid Day - Found Nov. 15, 2008
Sweet moment leaves bitter taste in Raj's mouth Date: 2008-11-15 Mumbai:  Woman who gifted him birthday cake says 'Mere Bhaiyya' was written on it
Raj in 'Bhaiyya' cake controversy - Deccan Herald
Raj has the cake and eats it too! - Rediff.com
Raj venom spills on to birthday cake... - The Statesman
Raj in fresh row over cutting of 'Bhaiyya' cake - Indian Express
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Posted on November 15, 2008, 1:58 pm

Thackeray cake video leaves party red-faced

Gulf Times - Found Nov. 14, 2008
... birthday cake controversy that has given a new twist to the Marathi-speaking versus North Indians issue in the state. Raj allegedly cut a cake...
Raj Thackeray in fresh row over cutting 'Bhaiyya' cake - Indian Express
Raj Thackeray in 'bhaiyya' cake controversy - Sify
Bhayya more - By subroto chatterjee - Indian Express
Smash a bhaya vada or bajiji - By Joseph Christie - Indian Express
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Posted on November 14, 2008, 1:43 pm

Cake mixing ceremony at Taj Malabar

Express Buzz - Found Nov. 11, 2008
... at Taj, and his team carefully pile the long table with 500 kg of goodies for the annually held cake mixing ceremony - chopped cashews, tutti...

Posted on November 11, 2008, 11:38 am

Fern Britton has her cake (and eats it too) in cupcake judging ...

Mail Online UK - Found Nov. 10, 2008
The This Morning presenter swapped Sunday roast for cake this weekend as she turned out to judge a cupcake competition.

Posted on November 10, 2008, 3:52 am

Cake Biography

Cake
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

A layered pound cake filled with raspberry jam and lemon curd, and finished with buttercream frosting

Cake is a form of food that is usually sweet and often baked. Cakes normally combine some kind of flour, a sweetening agent (commonly sugar), a binding agent (generally egg, though gluten or starch are often used by vegetarians and vegans), fats (usually butter, shortening, or margarine, although a fruit purée such as applesauce is sometimes substituted to avoid using fat), a liquid (milk, water or fruit juice), flavors and some form of leavening agent (such as yeast or baking powder), though many cakes lack these ingredients and instead rely on air bubbles in the dough to expand and cause the cake to rise. Cake is often frosted with buttercream or marzipan, and finished with piped borders and crystallized fruit.

Cake is often the dessert of choice for meals at ceremonial occasions, particularly weddings, anniversaries and birthdays. There are literally millions of cake recipes (some are bread-like and some rich and elaborate) and many are centuries old. Cake making is no longer a complicated procedure; while at one time considerable labor went into cake making (particularly the whisking of egg foams), baking equipment and directions have been simplified that even the most amateur cook may bake a cake.

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Varieties of cake

German chocolate cake.

Cakes are broadly divided into several categories, based primarily on ingredients and cooking techniques.

  • Yeast cakes are the oldest, and are very similar to yeast breads. Such cakes are often very traditional in form, and include such pastries as babka and stollen.
  • Cheesecakes use mostly some form of cheese (often cream cheese, mascarpone, ricotta or the like), and have very little to no flour component (though it sometimes appears in the form of a (often sweetened) crust). Cheesecakes are also very old, with evidence of honey-sweetened cakes dating back to ancient Greece.
  • Sponge cakes are thought to be the first of the non-yeast-based cakes and rely primarily on trapped air in a protein matrix (generally of beaten eggs) to provide leavening, sometimes with a bit of baking powder or other chemical leaven added as insurance. Such cakes include the Italian/Jewish pan di Spagna and the French GĂ©noise.
  • Butter cakes, including the pound cake and devil's food cake, rely on the combination of butter, eggs, and sometimes baking powder to provide both lift and a moist texture.
A large cake garnished with strawberries

Beyond these classifications, cakes can be classified based on their appropriate accompaniment (such as coffee cake), contents (e.g. fruitcake or flourless chocolate cake), or occasion (wedding cake, birthday cake, or Passover plava, a type of Jewish sponge cake sometimes made with matzo meal).

Cakes may be small and intended for individual consumption (for example madeleines and cupcakes). Larger cakes may be made with the intention of being sliced and served as part of a meal or social function. The cutting of a wedding cake constitutes a social ceremony in some cultures. The Ancient Roman marriage ritual of confarreatio originated in the sharing of a cake.

Particular types of cake may be associated with particular festivals, such as stollen (at Christmas), babka and simnel cake (at Easter), or mooncake.

Some varieties of cake are widely available in the form of cake mixes, wherein some of the ingredients (usually flour, sugar, flavoring, baking powder, and sometimes some form of fat) are premixed, and the cook needs add only a few extra ingredients, usually eggs, water, and sometimes vegetable oil or butter. Such mixes are available under a number of brand names, including Betty Crocker, Duncan Hines, and Pillsbury; while the diversity of represented styles is limited, cake mixes do provide an easy and readily available homemade option for cooks who are not accomplished bakers.

Cake flour

A decorated birthday cake
Main article: Flour

Special cake flour with a high starch:gluten ratio is made from fine-textured, soft, low-protein wheat. It is strongly bleached, and compared to all-purpose flour, cake flour tends to result in cakes with a lighter, less dense texture1. Therefore, it is frequently specified or preferred in cakes meant to be soft, light, and or bright white, such as angel cake. However, cake flour is generally not considered mandatory for good results, and its effect on the cake's texture can readily be simulated by adding corn starch and/or baking soda to all-purpose flour2 3 45 6 Some recipes explicitly specify or permit all-purpose flour78, notably where a firmer or denser cake texture is desired.

Cake decorating

Main article: Cake decorating
A chocolate cake decorated with icing, strawberries, and silvery sugar beads.

A finished cake is often enhanced by covering it with icing, or frosting, and toppings such as sprinkles, which are also known as "jimmies" in certain parts of the United States and "hundreds and thousands" in the United Kingdom. Frosting is usually made from powdered (icing) sugar, sometimes a fat of some sort, milk or cream, and often flavorings such as vanilla extract or cocoa powder. Some decorators use a rolled fondant icing. Commercial bakeries tend to use lard for the fat, and often whip the lard to introduce air bubbles. This makes the icing light and spreadable. Home bakers either use lard, butter, margarine or some combination thereof. Sprinkles are small firm pieces of sugar and oils that are colored with food coloring. In the late 20th century, new cake decorating products became available to the public. These include several specialized sprinkles and even methods to print pictures and transfer the image onto a cake.

Special tools are needed for more complex cake decorating, such as piping bags or syringes, and various piping tips. To use a piping bag or syringe, a piping tip is attached to the bag or syringe using a coupler. The bag or syringe is partially filled with icing which is sometimes colored. Using different piping tips and various techniques, a cake decorator can make many different designs. Basic decorating tips include open star, closed star, basketweave, round, drop flower, leaf, multi, petal, and specialty tips.

Royal icing, marzipan (or a less sweet version, known as almond paste), fondant icing (also known as sugarpaste) and buttercream are used as covering icings and to create decorations. Floral sugarcraft or wired sugar flowers are an important part of cake decoration. Cakes for special occasions, such as wedding cakes, are traditionally rich fruit cakes or occasionally Madeira cakes (also known as whisked or fatless sponge), that are covered with marzipan and either iced using royal icing or sugarpaste. They are finished with piped borders (made with royal icing) and adorned with a piped message, wired sugar flowers, hand-formed fondant flowers, marzipan fruit, piped flowers, or crystallized fruits or flowers such as grapes or violets.

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