Cupcakes What are Cupcakes? Cupcakes are small, tasty snack cakes that are favored for their portability and portion-control. They are batter cakes baked in a cup-shaped foil or temperature resistant paper.1 A cupcake can be prepared from a variety of formulations and can be decorated with cream and icings. Its composition is [...]
Patent Flour What is Patent Flour? Bakers often use the term patent flour to refer to baking flour. However, most flour sold today, whether bread, cake or pastry, is patent flour. It is high quality, commercial grade white flour. It's the milled product of the innermost part of the endosperm of the [...]
Cakes What are Cakes? Cakes are bakery products that are rich in sugar, fat and eggs, and can be accompanied with a wide variety of inclusions like fruits and flavors such as vanilla extracts. They represent a very important segment within the baking industry. They come in many varieties and are very [...]
Clear Flour What is Clear Flour? Clear flour is what’s leftover when the high quality white patent flour is extracted from wheat. Despite its name, clear flour is darker in color, as well as coarser and stronger tasting than patent flour. Because of its grayish color, it finds use in whole grain [...]
Maida Flour What is Maida Flour? Maida is a finely-milled, white wheat flour commonly used in India. It is obtained from the endosperm part of the wheat grain and can be made from winter- or summer-wheat varieties. Although not the exact equivalent of U.S. all-purpose flour, maida is often labeled a multi-purpose [...]
Chiffon Cake What is Chiffon Cake? A chiffon cake is a sweet baked good which combines a batter with a foam-type (sponge) cake. This type of cakes combine the richness of batter cakes such as high content of liquid whole eggs, fat and granulated sugar and the lightness and delicacy of angel [...]
Flour Also Known as Wheat Flour What is Flour? Flour is a fine powder made by grinding wheat kernels. It is the main component of foods such as bread, crackers, pasta, tortillas, cakes, cookies and pastries. Among other grains, wheat flour is unique due to its ability to form a gluten network [...]
Sponge Cake Also known as Swiss Roll What is Sponge Cake? Sponge cake is one of the oldest known sweet goods. Along with angel food cake, it belongs to the category of “foam cakes.” It's very popular around the world, probably because of their short list of ingredients. This type of cake [...]
Cake Flour Also known as Chlorinated Flour or Soft Wheat Flour What is Cake Flour? Cake flour is a finely milled powder obtained from soft winter wheat. It typically contains less protein (approx. 8%) than most other flours. White flour is required by the FDA to be enriched with: Thiamin Riboflavin Niacin [...]
All-Purpose Flour Also known as Plain Flour What is All-purpose Flour? All-purpose flour is a versatile and general use wheat flour. It is milled from hard red wheat or a blend of hard and soft wheats, typically 80:20 ratio. As the name suggests, all-purpose flour is suitable for all types of baked [...]
