Tuesday, January 23, 2007

cookie, cakes

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake#Cake_decorating_methods

Cake decorating methods

A cake decorated with a message is often used to celebrate a special event.
A cake decorated with a message is often used to celebrate a special event.

A finished cake is often enhanced by covering it with frosting, or icing, and toppings such as sprinkles, which are also known as "jimmies" in certain parts of the United States. Frosting is usually made from a fat of some sort, powdered (icing) sugar, sometimes milk or cream, and often flavourings such as vanilla extract or cocoa powder. Some decorators use a rolled fondant icing. Commercial bakeries tend to use lard for the fat, and often whip the lard to introduce air bubbles. This makes the icing light and spreadable. Home bakers either use lard, butter, margarine or some combination thereof. Sprinkles are small firm pieces of sugar and oils that are colored with food colouring. In the late 20th century, new cake decorating products became available to the public. These include several specialized sprinkles and even methods to print pictures and transfer the image onto a cake.

Cake decorating classes are popular. Special tools are needed for more complex cake decorating, such as piping bags or syringes, and various piping tips. To use a piping bag or syringe, a piping tip is attached to the bag or syringe using a coupler. The bag or syringe is partially filled with icing which is sometimes colored. Using different piping tips and various techniques, a cake decorator can make many different designs. Basic decorating tips include open star, closed star, basketweave, round, drop flower, leaf, multi, petal, and specialty tips.

Popular icing types include Butter Cream icing, which is made from butter, or cream cheese icing, which is typically made by replacing half the butter of an icing recipe with regular cream cheese.

A cake iced in the shape of a basket, with marzipan flowers
A cake iced in the shape of a basket, with marzipan flowers

Layered cakes are cakes with more than one cake or ingredient stacked on top of one another. Layered cakes can consist of cake along with fruits and other fillings such as custard or icing, or several thin cakes with icing in between the layers. The latter type is produced by either baking several thin cakes or baking a thick cake and carefully cutting the cake horizontally. The traditional Victoria Sandwich is the most common type of layer cake in the UK. In the United Kingdom there is a long and diverse tradition of cake decoration. Those who do it seriously tend to bake their cakes without the use of cake mixes, i.e., using traditional methods of baking. Royal Icing, Marzipan (or a less sweet version, known as Almond paste), Fondant Icing (also known as Sugarpaste) and Buttercream are used as covering icings and to create decorations. Floral Sugarcraft or Wired Sugar Flowers are an important part of Cake Decoration. Special occasion cakes, such as wedding cakes, are traditionally rich fruit cakes, or occasionally Madeira cake (also known as whisked or fatless sponge),

A cake decorated with "chocolate plastic," a fondant rose and chocolate leaves.
A cake decorated with "chocolate plastic," a fondant rose and chocolate leaves.

covered with marzipan and either Royal Iced or sugarpasted, finished with Royal Iced piped borders and adorned with a piped message, wired sugar flowers, hand-formed fondant flowers or marzipan fruit, piped flowers, or crystallized fruits or flowers such as grapes or violets. More recently it has become popular to have a mixture of both rich fruit cakes and sponge cakes in a single cake, either stacked or on stands for these occasions. These sponge cakes would be split and filled with preserve and/or buttercream and covered in sugarpaste. Similar traditions exist in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Australia and New Zealand.

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