How far you know about your piece of cake?

Cake; is a form of sweet item which made from flour, butter, eggs, sugar and other ingredients, that is usually baked. Some people say cake is a modification of bread. We can agree for that term, because the ingredients we use to bake cakes and bread are somewhat same. The main different is we don't add sugar to bake a bread. 

                                                    

 

    

History of Cake 

The word "cake" is of Viking origin, from the Old Norse word "kaka". Actually the first cakes were very different from what we eat today. They were mostly like bread- and sweetened with honey. Raisins, nuts and dried fruits were often added. According to the history of culinary, the precursors of modern cakes were first baked in Europe in the mid-17th century. Due to the advances in technology, people got to invent fine ovens that suit to bake cakes. Round shaped cakes that were placed on a flat tray were popular at that time. 

Since the middle of 19th century bakers started to bake cake with extra refined white flour and they added baking powder instead of yeast. 

Varieties of cake 

There are so many varieties of cakes based on the ingredients and the baking method. 

Now let's have a bite of each cake🎂

Butter cake

Butter cake is the easiest cake to bake. Anyone can give it a try. The ingredients are butter, all purpose flour, sugar, baking powder, eggs and vanilla essence if needed. Butter cake is suits to a tea party very well. A cup of tea and a piece of butter cake will give you the best taste.

The taste of the butter cake is vary from the measures of each ingredients such as butter and flour. 

 

   

Chocolate cake 

Chocolate cakes have the same ingredients as butter cakes. And it is flavored with melted chocolate or cocoa powder. There are varieties in chocolate cakes too. German chocolate cake and chocolate fudge cake are two of them. 

                   
                                 

       

                    

Coffee cake

It's a cake intended to be made with coffee. And it's vary from America to England. American coffee cake is made with a single cake layer, flavored with cinnamon or fruits. The British coffee cake is typically a sponge cake; flavored with coffee. It includes a coffee butter icing layer between two layers of the cake and also for the top layer. 

 Apart from these three kinds of cakes; there are sponge cake, ribbon cake and few more. All these cakes have the same ingredients except some additions like colorings, flavors, toppings and icing. 

 

Cakes for special occasions 

Cakes are classified according to the occasion for which they are intended. As an example, for birthdays. People get used to celebrate their special moments with a nice cake. Celebrations such as weddings, Christmas, Halloween, anniversaries and Easter are some of them. There are particular cakes for particular festivals. The well known one is the "chocolate log cake" for the Christmas.

People have turned out cakes into stories." Because every cake has a story to tell." 

                                             -Chamodi Kaveesha