Cakes: Review

How can you tell the doneness of a cake?

You can do it through the use of a _________

The following are the possible reasons why cakes have pale color, except:

• Underbaked

• Wrong size of baking pan

• Not enough sugar in the recipe

• Overmixing

The following are the causes of a too brown cake, except:

• Too much flour in the recipe

• Over baked

• The oven temperature is too hot

• Too much sugar in the recipe

Poor quality of ingredients could lead to ___________.

• Sunken cake

• Dry cake

• Poor cake flavor

• Too moist cake

It is a frosting made with butter and sugar. It is a simple and easy frosting used in cupcakes and cakes.

• Butter Cream

• Whipped Cream

• Ganache

• Boiled

TRUE OR FALSE: Frosting is applied on cake to seal the crumbs.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What type of icing is made of powdered sugar, egg whites, and liquid? This also hardens when set.

It is made from sugar, water, gelatin, marshmallow, vegetable fat or shortening, and glycerol.

What type of frosting/icing is this?

• Chocolate Mousse

• Ganache

• Chocolate Buttercream

• Melted chocolate

It is a type of fondant made with a mixture of sugar, water, and cream of tartar, cooked together until smooth.