Cakes and their varieties
Today at Grants Events we will be giving you 5 varieties of cakes out of many types of cakes we have.
Basically there are many types of cakes with different categories, by flavour, mixing or even ingridents
But we will give you top 5 list out of all categories to start with.
Sponge Cake And Genoise Cake
It will be nice to start with Genoise Cake. Basically in Italy and also france Sponge cakes are called genoise cake. In this type of cake eggs and sugar with butter sometimes are beaten till its thick and add flour then bake in a round pan.
Most times genoise cakes are sized in horizon layer with flavour syrup in between o make moister and this type of cakes is found in mostly cofeeshop
Sponge cakes just did not contain baking soda or powder
let talk about Pound Cake
Pound Cake
This type of cake is butter family cake and it is called pound cake because of the mentionment base on pound.
Just Like pound of butter, pound of flour, pound of sugar or pound of egg sometimesthe egg white will be separated
Pound cake is always baked in a loaf pan
Sour cream cakes, coffee cakes, and fruit crumb cakes are variations of pound cake.
Chiffon Cake
This type of cake is between oil cake and sponge cake.
The egg used in this type of cake is separated only the white is turned till it is flatter and mixed with butter with the materials. It is baked in a tube pan.
This is invented by American salesman that sold the recipies to general mills an dgenrally in market in 1940s and 1950.
Butter Cake
Butter cake will always be mentioned well known and any cake sthat begin with sugar and cream butter is a butter caker
You add egg , flour, sometimes milk and baking powder or baking soda to make it rise
It can be white or yellow though colour depends on whether its the yellow yolk in egg use or the white or mixed
Red Velvet Cake
This one of the cakes you really need to try out is part of butter cakes but usually made up of oil instead of butter
It's of different colour segments that cocoa also distinct the colour to make it more reddish velvet.
It is said that its first baked the 1920s by a chef at the Waldorf-Astoria.
For me it is cakes of colours..
These are the list of cakes you really need ot try out.
You can contact us at Grants Events we cover lot in our baking school