By Niveditha Kalyanaraman
September 30th, 2023
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Cakes are a staple dessert, loved and gorged over by so many of us. All of us have a standard cake order that we hold favourite. But have you tried exploring more? For the cake enthusiast in you, here are 6 different types of cake!
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Any cake recipe that begins with the step of creaming butter and sugar is a butter cake. Other components include eggs to aerate the batter, flour for structure, milk or another liquid for moisture, and baking powder or baking soda to ensure it rises in the oven.
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Oil cakes follow the same principles as butter cakes, but use oil as the source of fat. Because oil is liquid at room temperature, oil cake recipes skip the step of creaming the fat and sugar.
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Pound cake gets its name from the original ratio of ingredients used to make it: a pound of butter, a pound of sugar, a pound of eggs, and a pound of flour. You may see variations with names like quatre-quarts (the French term for pound cake) or 4:4 cake.
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Any recipe that contains no baking soda or baking powder but lots of whipped eggs or egg whites? That’s a sponge cake.
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Quite literally feels like with its tender crumb and rich flavor, chiffon cake recipes usually include both whipped eggs and baking powder. The egg yolks are mixed into the wet ingredients with oil while the whites are beaten to soft peaks and folded into the batter.
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Angel food cake is made with whipped egg whites, no yolks or other leaveners. The whites are whipped with sugar (a lot of it) until firm before the flour is gently folded in, resulting in a snow-white, airy, and delicate cake.
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