Iloilo Science and Technology University

Miagao Campus
Miagao, Iloilo

Cake
Cake is a form of sweet dessert that is typically baked. In its oldest
forms, cakes were modifications of breads but now cover a wide range of
preparations that can be simple or elaborate and share features with other
desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards and pies. Cake is often served
as a celebratory dish on ceremonial occasions.
Types of Cakes
1.

ANGEL FOOD CAKE

A light, flourless cake made with sugar,
cream of tartar, salt, vanilla or almond extract,
and a dozen or so egg whites, depending on the
recipe. There is no leavening. Angel cake is
typically baked in a tube pan. It is popularly served with berries and
whipped cream, although it is just fine plain or with a dessert sauce
(caramel, chocolate, custard, fruit, etc.). Some historians think that the
first angel food cakes were baked in the South by African-American
slaves, due to the strength required to whip the air into the whites.
Others theorize that the cake originated in Pennsylvania Dutch country

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in the early 1800s.

BATTENBERG CAKE or WINDOW CAKE
A light sponge cake covered in marzipan
with a checkerboard interior. One layer is dyed
pink to contrast with the yellow cake; the layers
are cut into uniform logs and joined with apricot

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jam into one cake. The origin of the name is obscure.

BIRTHDAY CAKE
This generally refers to a frosted layer cake,
decorated with roses or other themes that honor
the interests of the celebrant.

4. BLACK FOREST CAKE

A chocolate layer cake filled with Kirschflavored

whipped

cream

and

sour

Morello

cherries and traditionally frosted with whipped

cream and chocolate curls.

5. BLACKOUT CAKE
A blackout cake is a very dark chocolate
layer

cake,

filled

and

frosted

with

dark

chocolate pudding and covered in chocolate

crumbs. It was developed in New York during
World War II, named after the blackout drills
performed by the Civilian Defense Corps. When the Navy sent ships to
sea from the Brooklyn Navy Yard at night, the streetlights were turned
off and the windows of Brooklyn were blacked out to avoid
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silhouetting the battleships against the city.

BUTTER CAKE
A butter cake is a cake made with
shorteningbutter,

margarine, oil

or

vegetable shortening. They are finergrained than fluffy sponge cakes, and
thus are easier to make into white,
yellow and chocolate layer cakes and
loaf cakes.
7. BROWNIES & BARS
While cake-like brownies and bars
(like lemon bars) are baked in cake pans
and have a dense, cakey texture, they
are actually classified as bar cookies,
not cakes. See the different types of
cookies, and read the origin of brownies.

Reference:

http://www.thenibble.com/reviews/main/cookies/cakes/glossary.asp