The Science Of Baking A Cake
What do the ingredients do? Why does it rise? What makes a good cake?
Have your cake and eat it
If you’re anything like me, you’ll love a good slice of cake. At its best it has a crumbly texture yet is moist on the palette.
What is cake exactly? At first glance, the Collins Dictionary definition certainly seems to fit the bill:
A cake is a sweet food made by baking a mixture of flour, eggs, sugar, and fat in an oven. Cakes may be large and cut into slices or small and intended for one person only.
But this doesn’t explain why cake is cake.
Think of a cake mixture before it goes into the oven: it looks like a sloppy, gloopy mess.
How does it transform from sludge into a delicious, spongy cake?
The role of the ingredients
There are hundreds of options for variations of flavour and filling. My online search for “cake recipe” gave me 38,000,000 hits.
At the core of these myriad recipes, however, are a few basic elements.
