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Layer cake Birthday fruit cake Raisin cake. Cake is a flour confection usually made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients and is usually baked.In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate and which share features with desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies.
An argument about whether the teacake is a biscuit or a cake led to an action in the European Court of Justice by British company Marks and Spencer. The UK tax authorities eventually accepted the company's argument that the teacakes were cakes (chocolate covered biscuits are taxed, cakes are not) but refused to repay most of the VAT.
[5] [6] These were respected professions in ancient Rome. [3] By the end of the Republic private bakers known as pistores used mills to mass produce bread. Trajan is said to have established a collegium pistorum to help ensure the continuous supply of bread. [7] [1] According to Pliny the Elder's Natural History women were the primary bakers in ...
A Swiss roll, jelly roll (United States), roll cake, cream roll, roulade or Swiss log or swiss cake —is a type of rolled sponge cake filled with whipped cream, jam, icing, or any type of filling. The origins of the term are unclear; in spite of the name "Swiss roll", the cake is believed to have originated elsewhere in Central Europe ...
Zwetschgenkuchen, Pflaumenkuchen (German: [ˈp͡flaʊ̯mənˌkuːxn̩] ⓘ), Zwetschgendatschi (southern Bavaria) or Zwetschgenplootz is a sheet cake made from yeast dough, shortcrust dough, or cake batter that is thinly spread onto a baking sheet and covered with pitted zwetschgen plums (also called Italian plums) before being baked.
The origins of carrot cake is disputed. Published in 1591, there is an English recipe for "pudding in a Carret [] root" [2] that is essentially a carrot stuffed with meat, but it includes many elements common to the modern dessert: shortening, cream, eggs, raisins, sweetener (dates and sugar), spices (clove and mace), scraped carrot, and breadcrumbs (in place of flour).
Modern homemade Pischinger cake. Pischinger learned the confectionery profession from his father. He later opened his own biscuit and zwieback factory in Vienna district Neubau, and in 1889 he joined his father's business. Right from the start, the Pischinger confectionery factory was equipped with modern machines that were constantly being ...
In Europe, ash cakes were made into a small, round and flat loaf, usually consisting of a little wheat and sometimes rye, baked under an inverted iron pan over which the ashes of the fire were heaped. [9] This was almost exclusively the bread of the peasants. [9] In French, this type of bread was called fougasse. [9]