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Wedding Accessories Knowledge Base - What do cake bags do
for cake?
Cake is a form of food that is
usually sweet and often baked. Cakes normally combine some
kind of flour, a sweetening agent (commonly sugar), a binding
agent (generally egg, though gluten or starch are often
used by vegetarians and vegans), fats (usually butter, shortening,
or margarine, although a fruit purée such as applesauce
is sometimes substituted to avoid using fat), a liquid (milk,
water or fruit juice), flavors and some form of leavening
agent (such as yeast or baking powder), though many cakes
lack these ingredients and instead rely on air bubbles in
the dough to expand and cause the cake to rise. Cake is
often frosted with buttercream or marzipan, and finished
with piped borders and crystallized fruit.
Cake is often the dessert of choice for
meals at ceremonial occasions, particularly weddings, anniversaries
and birthdays. There are countless cake recipes; some are
bread-like, some rich and elaborate and many are centuries
old. Cake making is no longer a complicated procedure; while
at one time considerable labor went into cake making (particularly
the whisking of egg foams), baking equipment and directions
have been simplified that even the most amateur cook may
bake a cake.
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