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 [...]
Specific Gravity What is Specific Gravity? Specific Gravity is a way to measure the air added into cake batter. It shows the amount of aeration, or air movement, in specific batters, allowing bakers to determine if it is too dense or not. It's the ratio of the weight of a cake batter [...]
Brix What is Brix? The degree Brix (°Bx) is the most common scale for measuring dissolved or soluble solids. It is used to express the concentration (% weight) or density of sugar in aqueous solutions in a wide variety of quality control operations including food and other industries.1 Each degree brix (°1) [...]
Cake Cake is obtained from a chemically leavened batter that results in a spongy and airy texture. There are thousands of cake recipes and variations, but there are some consistencies in defining cake. Cakes are typically circle in shape, however many cakes are also rectangular, or cut into specific shapes in order [...]
Butter Cake What is Butter Cake? Butter cake is considered the quintessential American cake. Variations of it are often served at weddings and birthdays. The most common forms are white and yellow cake. Both are fairly simple and contain flour, eggs, butter, sugar, sometimes salt, and a chemical leavening pair. In the [...]
