Cake is a flour confection made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients
and is usually baked
The most common ingredients include flour, sugar, eggs, fat (such as
butter, oil, or margarine), a liquid, and a leavening agent, such as
baking soda or baking powder. Common additional ingredients include
dried, candied, or fresh fruit, nuts, cocoa, and extracts such as
vanilla, with numerous substitutions for the primary ingredients.
Varieties Of Cakes
Butter Cake:
Butter cakes are made from creamed butter, sugar, eggs, and flour.
They rely on the combination of butter and sugar beaten for an
extended time to incorporate air into the batter
Sponge cake:
Sponge cakes (or foam cakes) are made from whipped eggs, sugar, and
flour. Traditional sponge cakes are leavened only with eggs. They
rely primarily on trapped air in a protein matrix (generally beaten
eggs) to provide leavening, sometimes with a bit of baking powder or
other chemical leaven added.
Chocolate cake:
Chocolate cakes are butter cakes, sponge cakes, or other cakes
flavored with melted chocolate or cocoa powder.[
Coffee cake:
Coffee cake is generally thought of as a cake to serve with coffee
or tea at breakfast or a coffee break. Some types use yeast as a
leavening agent, while others use baking soda or baking powder.
Layer cakes:
Layer cakes are cakes made with layers of sponge or butter cake
filled with cream, jam, or other filling to hold the layers
together.
