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Sign in to save250px|thumb|right|Layer cake Cake is a baker's confectionery 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.
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Cake is a baked confectionery made primarily from flour, sugar, and other ingredients that evolved from early bread modifications. It now encompasses a wide variety of preparations ranging from simple to elaborate, often sharing characteristics with other desserts like pastries and custards.
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20 sectionsContents
- History
- Cake mixes
- Varieties
- Butter cake
- Sponge cake
- Chocolate cake
- Coffee cake
- Flourless cake
- Layer cakes
- One-egg cake
- Comparison with bread
- Special-purpose cakes
- Shapes
- Flour
- Cooking
- Cake decorating
- Food safety
- See also
- References
- External links
250px|thumb|right|Layer cake Cake is a baker's confectionery 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.
The most common ingredients include flour, sugar, eggs, fat (such as butter, oil, or margarine), a liquid, and a leavening agent, such as baking soda or baking powder. Common additional ingredients include dried, candied, or fresh fruit, nuts, cocoa, and extracts such as vanilla, with numerous substitutions for the primary ingredients. Cakes can also be filled with fruit preserves, nuts, or dessert sauces (like custard, jelly, cooked fruit, whipped cream, or syrups), iced with buttercream or other icings, and decorated with marzipan, piped borders, or candied fruit.